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Learn how to paint botanical watercolor flowers using an award-winning artist’s 6-stage technique in this workbook featuring 6 step-by-step projects!

Award-winning floral artist Anna Mason shares her innovative watercolor technique so that you can paint botanical watercolor flowers in her clean, crisp style. Inside, you’ll find:

• How to get started, from setting up to workspace to drawing your projects
• How to work with watercolor to achieve the right tones, hues, and color mixes
• How to hold your brush, apply paint, and other useful brush techniques
• How to paint watercolor flowers in Anna’s signature 6-stage process
• 6 step-by-step flower portraits including clematis, violets, tulips, and more!

Each of the 6 projects is accompanied by an outline drawing, tonal notes, and useful color swatches so you can compare the tone and hue of your mixes to Anna’s own.

Anna Mason’s exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine, and earned her a spot in the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists. Here, she tells you everything you need to know about painting modern botanical-style flower portraits—whether you’re a beginner or a more experience watercolor artist!

Anna Mason grew up surrounded by the lush English countryside and has always been inspired by the intricate detail and colourful beauty in the natural world. Completely self-taught, Anna has developed a true-to-life painting style that she wants to share with as many people as possible. It is her mission to get as many people enjoying the therapeutic benefits of watercolour painting as well as getting the kind of results they want. Anna won the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal and Best in Show award 2007; has paintings in the RHS Lindley Library Collection and also the Shirley Sherwood Collection; and was the Grand Prize Winner in International Artist Magazine for Strawberries Everest 2011. She was elected to the Society of Botanical Artists 2013, and was a juror for the Denver Botanic Gardens and the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI) exhibition Plants, Birds & Pollinators Art Serving Science 2013. She lives in Surrey and teaches at RHS Wisley & West Dean College.

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The Modern Flower Painter Creating vibrant botanical portraits in watercolour

The Modern Flower Painter Creating vibrant botanical portraits in watercolour

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