Botanical Art and Beyond: In Watercolour (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781800923386)

Vendor: Billy Showell
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Format: Hardcover
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Botanical Art and Beyond: In Watercolour

$40.00

Botanical Art and Beyond: In Watercolour

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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Astonishingly accurate, yet playfully contemporary: discover award-winning watercolour artist Billy Showell's 'botanicals with a twist'.

From repeating motifs to experimenting with alternative backgrounds, discover how to create your own contemporary watercolour masterpieces, step by step.

In this inspiring, indispensable guide for both budding and experienced botanical artists, best-selling author Billy Showell reveals the materials, painting methods and compositional techniques she uses to create her stunningly unique flower portraits.

Discover:
  • Billy's expert guidance on getting started choose the right tools and materials, work from life and observe and draw your subjects accurately.
  • How to experiment with composition - from playing with backgrounds and positioning to perspective and lighting.
  • 4 stunning step-by-step projects exploring Billy's favourite ways to play with composition, all with full-size outlines to trace.
  • Galleries of Billy's award-winning paintings to inspire your own ideas.
  • New uses for your botanical paintings, including stationery, cards and more.

With numerous step-by-step studies, close-up photographs and examples of Billy's exquisite paintings, this book is not only packed with invaluable advice and practical information but is also a sumptuous collection of Billy's groundbreaking work.

Author: Billy Showell
ISBN-10: 1800923384
ISBN-13: 9781800923386
Publisher: Search Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2027
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
By Billy Showell
By Billy Showell
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Billy Showell graduated from St Martins School of Art, London UK, with a B.A. in fashion design, but was irresistibly drawn to painting and illustration. She is now a renowned botanical fine artist and tutor. Billy works from her studio in Kent and teaches via her online school of botanical art. She also travels to teach throughout the UK, the USA and Australia.

Billy has been awarded many awards for botanical excellence from the Society of Botanical Artists; a gold medal from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; and a Royal Horticultural Society silver-gilt medal. Billy's paintings are collected by her followers the world over and held in many prestigious botanical collections.

Over 100K copies of Billy's books have sold across the world, in many different languages. Billy also runs a successful online painting school, The Billy Showell School of Botanical Art. Visit her website: www.billyshowell.com

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