A-Z of botanical flowers : in watercolour

Summary: Known for his wonderful traditional and contemporary botanical paintings, Michael Lakin is a keen gardener, and an experienced and enthusiastic tutor. In this book he illustrates how to paint twenty-six botanically accurate flowers. Learn how to develop accomplished pictures from initial beginnings and observations right through to the drawing and final painting stages.

Record details

ISBN: 1844485625 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781844485628 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm
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Publisher: Tunbridge Wells, Kent : Search Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The flowers -- Introduction -- Materials -- Choosing your subject -- Composition -- Drawing -- Using colour -- Six stages of painting -- Aquilegia -- Bergenia -- Cyclamen -- Digitalis -- Echinacea -- Fuchsia -- Galanthus -- Helleborus -- Iris -- Jasminum -- Kniphofia -- Lathyrus -- Magnolia -- Narcissus -- Orchid -- Pelargonium -- Quamoclit -- Rudbeckia -- Strelitzia -- Tulipa -- Uvularia -- Viola -- Weigela -- Xeranthemum -- Yucca -- Zantedeschia -- Finishing your work.