Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Learn to paint beautiful botanical art as a world-renowned artist shares the materials, methods, and techniques she uses to create stunning watercolor flowers, fruits, and vegetables.

Includes 90+ step-by-step demonstrations!

In this inspiring and indispensable guide to creating botanical art, a respected botanical watercolor artist reveals the materials, methods and techniques she uses to attain her stunningly beautiful portraits of flowers, fruit and vegetables. Inside you'll find Billy Showell's expert guidance on:

- Tools and materials
- Working from life and observation
- Drawing and watercolor painting techniques
- Pattern and texture
- Color and color mixing

With over 90 step-by-step studies, close-up photographs and examples of Billy's exquisite watercolor paintings, this botanical art book is not only packed full of invaluable advice and information but also a visually stunning showcase for the work of this amazing artist.

Billy Showell is a well-respected botanical watercolor artist, and her exceptional eye for detail and ability to re-create the form, texture, color and patterning of a wide range of plants have earned her a formidable reputation worldwide. Her compositions are given a contemporary, sometimes playful twist, while retaining all the beauty and accuracy of traditional botanical paintings.

Review Quotes

Botanical artists Billy Showell's highly accomplished paintings give a contemporary twist to the traditional art of botanical painting, and have received worldwide acclaim. In Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour she draws upon her years of experience and expertise to produce an impressive compendium of simply stunning works of art. As an instruction manual, Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour covers every aspect of botanical painting, including the materials and tools needed, preserving specimens, drawing, painting, color mixing and composition. Richly illustrated throughout with step-by-step demonstrations and examples of her work, Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour is a visual feast as well as an invaluable source of expert guidance and inspiration. With a diverse range of subjects that include flowers, foliage, fruit and vegetables, Billy provides an insight into her painting techniques that artists of all abilities will find both informative and inspirational. Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour is thoroughly 'user friendly' in tone, commentary, organization and presentation, making it an ideal and very highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Art Studies instructional reference collections in general, and Botanical Art supplemental studies reading lists in particular. It should be noted for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Billy Showell's Botanical Painting in Watercolour is also available in a Kindle format ($22.30), .--Midwest Book Reviews "http: //www.midwestbookreview.com/lbw/dec_16.htm#Art"

About the Author

Billy Showell graduated from St Martins School of Art with a B.A. in fashion design, but was irresistably drawn to painting and illustration. In 1993 she set course for a career as an artist and now paints, illustrates and teaches botanical painting at her studio and art clubs in the UK, USA and Australia. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK with her husband and two sons. Billy has been awarded five Certificates of Botanical Merit from the Society of Botanical Artists and her first book on watercolour flower portraits has been hugely successful in the UK and abroad. Billy's paintings are collected by her followers the world over and many are available as limited edition prints.