Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers: Discover Techniques for Creating Realistic Florals and Plants...

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Kyehyun Park

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers

Discover Techniques for Creating Realistic Florals and Plants in Pencil and Watercolor

Kyehyun Park

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Quarry Books
29 March 2022

Watercolours; Drawing & drawings; Botanical art; Painting & art manuals

Drawing and painting realistic flowers is achievable! Create a wide variety of blooms and greenery using an easy step-by-step method, then add watercolor for gorgeous effects. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers, discover how to draw flowers such as roses, cosmos, daffodils, tulips, hydrangeas, lilies, daisies, and more from various angles, and learn about perspective and shading. Once you have the skills to draw a single flower, learn how to draw groupings, bouquets, and wreaths. Mix in grasses and wildflowers to create a variety of looks and dynamic scenes. Then, learn simple techniques to add luscious watercolor, using shading, blending, and gradient techniques for eye-catching results. Popular Instagram artist Kate Kyehyun Park shares her secrets for capturing realistic flower, leaf, and plant shapes. Artists of all levels love drawing and painting nature, and with these techniques they'll confidently render lifelike botanicals in an array of lovely palettes. The book also includes:

- Ideas and techniques for drawing and painting charming potted plants - Instructions for drawing and painting smaller flowers, buds, and branches - Watercolor techniques showing how to expertly blend colors, use brush strokes and brush pressure to create various shapes, and how to use color to shade and highlight - Warm-up exercises that help develop skills - Simple methods for understanding perspective and composition, making it effortless to draw flowers from different angles

Add these striking florals to sketchbooks, stationery, journals, and more. With Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers, creating true-to-life florals and plants is within your reach!

By: Kyehyun Park
Imprint: Quarry Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780760373309
ISBN 10: 0760373302
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 MATERIALS Watercolor Palettes Brushes Watercolor Paper Other Materials 2 HOW TO SKETCH FLOWERS IN THREE SIMPLE STEPS Sketching Basics The Three-Step Sketch 3 BASIC WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUES Watercolor Density Levels Brush Techniques Watercolor Painting Techniques Color 4 SIMPLE FLOWERS Cosmos Lily Balloon Flower Hibiscus 5 FLOWER CLUSTERS Canola Flower Lily of the Valley Hydrangea Foxglove 6 FRUITS AND POTTED PLANTS Orange Blossom Olive Branch Potted Pilea Resources Acknowledgments About the Author Index

Kyehyun Park was born and raised in South Korea. After receiving her bachelor's degree in graphic art, she worked as a graphic designer in South Korea and New York City. She completed her master's degree in animation at Academy of Art University, majoring in 3D environment modeling. She has created illustrations for Hyundai Motor America's Santa Fe and Tucson social media campaigns, and in 2019 she became a licensed designer with the French decor company Lilipinso. Since 2017, Kyehyun has been posting her drawing and watercolor flower painting tutorials on Instagram to her large platform of followers, and teaching watercolor classes in Los Angeles, where she lives. Instagram: @urbankate_in_ca

Reviews for Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers: Discover Techniques for Creating Realistic Florals and Plants in Pencil and Watercolor

"""The ideal DIY instruction guide, especially for the novice artist/illustrator. Whether working with pencil or watercolor, ""Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers"" will prove to be well appreciated."" * Midwest Book Review *"