Watercolours in a Weekend: Flowers

by Jill Bays

Book Overview

A unique guide that will teach complete beginners how to paint a beautiful floral watercolour in just one weekend. Beginners recognise that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce their first finished painting. This popular 'weekend' formula allows them to do both in a limited amount of time - to build skills gradually and to produce an attractive, frameable painting that they can hang on their walls...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715316370
• ISBN13: 9780715316375
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Solution for beginners

Just like to say after purchasing other books which should have been for beginners and turned out not to be so.This book Watercolors in a weekend - flowers was finally what I needed! This is really a step by step book. I was able to follow directions easily and creating is a great joy - I can do it! Perfect for beginner watercolorists.

Thanks, Jill!

After months of sitting with my preschooler at the easel and painting nothing but crude daisies, I bought this book. It's been three days and I am already painting flowers that look like flowers. The techniques are simple and are explained well with text and photographs. I find that many how-to-paint books are filled with the artist's own finished works but never show the intimidated beginner how to get there. This book is different in that it takes the reader through a step-by-step process that begins with the first stroke and ends with the final product. I highly recommend this book to the beginning watercolorist.