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Creative and calming watercolour projects that all budding artists will love. Everything a complete beginner needs to know to get started in watercolour. The perennial favourite material for beginner artists, watercolour can be a surprisingly tricky medium to get to grips with. In this essential guide, bestselling author and artist Harriet de Winton walks readers through all the essential materials, tools and techniques to get started with creating art in watercolour. Readers will then feel empowered to approach 20+ step-by-step projects ranging from very simple to more complex works, and dealing with landscapes, flowers & botanicals, still lifes and abstracts.Pick up a new creative skill with confidence with this comprehensive, accessible guide.Topics covered include:- Washes and gradients- Highlights and lowlights- Underpainting- Lifting and blotting- Shadow and light sources- Perspective- Depth and distance- Finding your style

All you need is a pen to create gorgeous botanical artworks with Draw Your Way: Botanical Watercolour.Reverse colouring is the practice of drawing and doodling your own unique line artworks over pre-painted colour backgrounds. In this book, celebrated watercolourist Harriet de Winton has created more than 80 beautiful watercolour backgrounds for readers to fill in. Full of gentle prompts on how one might fill the pages with line drawings, and advice on how best to create authentic and original botanical artworks, this is a unique offering from the bestselling author of New Botanical Watercolour.Discover or rediscover your creativity, and engage with the natural world of botanicals, with this free-form activity book.

Create beautiful botanical artworks, engage with the natural world around you, and take pleasure in the changing seasons with A Year of Watercolour. Award-winning and bestselling artist and tutor Harriet de Winton takes you through more than 30 step-by-step botanical paintings that span the seasons. Learn to paint cherry blossoms and lambs in the spring, honeybees and wildflowers for summer, oak leaves and harvest mice in autumn, and pine trees and snowdrops in winter. Plus, enjoy charming bonus features like a recipe for wild garlic pesto in springtime, or guidance on how to paint a festive wreath with winter berries and foliage. Harriet covers basic watercolour techniques including mixing colours, making this book perfect for watercolour beginners. The perfect primer for creating seasonal cards, personalized stationery and stunning artworks to decorate your home or give to friends and family.

Award-winning artist Harriet de Winton shows you how to create contemporary watercolour artworks to treasure and share. Through more than 30 step-by-step projects, discover how to paint individual flowers and foliage, as well as beautiful botanical compositions. Use your new skills to make art for your wall, unique cards, invitations, or simply paint for pleasure.

In her second book, botanical artist Harriet de Winton shows you how to paint modern watercolour artworks to treasure and share. Picking up where New Botanical Painting left off, this books aims to expand readers' repertoires into fauna as well as flora, with easy-to-follow instructions for a variety of difficulty levels.Through more than 30 step-by-step projects, you'll discover how to paint beautiful butterflies, bumblebees, birds and botanicals from around the world. In the final chapter, you'll find a guide to composing stunning patterns and scenes with your own botanical watercolour creations. Use your new skills to make art for your wall, unique cards, invitations, or simply paint for pleasure.Projects include: Bengal TigerChilean FlamingoPrickly PearZebraBumblebeeGarden Tiger MothPeacockWhite-tailed DeerPolar BearArctic PoppyAnd many more!

Create beautiful watercolour paintings, practise your craft and take delight in the simple everyday items and experiences so many of us share.Award-winning and bestselling artist and tutor Harriet de Winton inspires you with 365 watercolour tutorials and ideas spanning twelve themed chapters. From cosy days at home to the first buds of spring and days out exploring, Watercolour Every Day uncovers the inspiration found in each day.Complete with step-by-step tutorials and prompts, Harriet covers watercolour basics, tips and techniques and suggests colour palettes, making this the perfect guide whether you've never picked up a paintbrush before or are looking for inspiration to make painting a daily practice.

This beautiful and inspiring book gives you everything you need to create your own stunning watercolour paintings.Discover 15 original compositions by artist Harriet de Winton outlined on high-quality art paper, which you can paint directly onto to create your own watercolour artworks of plants, insects and animals. First, learn about the watercolour basics and work through four guided projects to master all the techniques needed. Then find inspiration in the gallery of Harriet's finished artworks before creating your own beautiful botanical paintings.

24 hand-drawn postcards to paint into by talented and experienced watercolour artist and tutor Harriet de Winton.Paint in the outlines to create stunning artworks of flowers, butterflies and animals. Each postcard is detachable, so you can send them to your family and friends after painting them in.This is a wonderful addition if you have Harriet's other titles, including bestselling New Botanical Painting and her latest You Will Be Able to Paint with Watercolour by the End of This Book, or a great starting point in your watercolour journey.