A-Z of Flower Portraits: An illustrated guide to painting 40 beautiful flowers in watercolour

Beautifully illustrated throughout with paintings done by the author. All are stunning. Some things to note about this book; Unlike some step by step with picture books, this actually fully explains the techniques Billy uses to create her glorious paintings. If the reader uses this book as ( I believe ) it is intended, you will learn through practise watercolour techniques and skills to improve your painting. Billy's style is almost botanical in its detail, therefore to achieve anything close to realism careful sketching and observation is needed. But sketching can be learned, its just practise. This book will not take you by the hand to enable you to replicate ( as if) her paintings, but it will teach you how to improve your skills, or even inspire you to take up a brush and paint for the first time. A great book.

Wonderful book. An inspiration for botanical artists.

I used this book for learning to paint in watercolour after watching Billy Showell on u tube. It is very well written and very educational and most informative. The pictures and steps showing the procedure are very clear and helped me greatly. I am hopeing to eventually be a fraction as good as Billy is 🤔might be rather a struggle as she is most talented and produces wonderfull life like paintings . Thank you Billy .👍🏻😊.

Beautiful illustrations along with easy to follow instructions. This isn’t a book for beginners, but more for intermediate painters. Certainly one I’ll be keeping in my collection. Some reviews are complaining that this book hasn’t turned them into a professional…… in their case, I’d recommend drawing for dummies.

Very informative and enabled me to learn a lot with easy to follow instructions. Good colour likeness and I would recommend this book to any flower artist.The book arrived the next day which impressed me greatly. All in all a very easy transaction.

Bought for my Mum who loved it

This is a lovely book for aspiring artists. There are beautiful illustrations and lots of tips. Billy Showell is such a talented artist and I just love her books

All I can say is wow! If you thought the first books were good just wait until you get your hands on this one. The format is very good with very clear explanations on how the effects are achieved. Some of the actual flower portraits are a little twee for my liking, but this in no way detracts from the skill of achieving the likeness of the individual flower. There is no doubt that a lot of work has gone into the production of this book, and it deserves to be widely read by both experienced painters, and those just starting out on botanical art.

Livro perfeito para artistas e pintores se inspirarem..ótima compra

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Mitlerweile habe ich sämtliche Bücher von Showell, weil sie wirklich gelungen sind und in gebundener Form eine reine Augenweide. Das "A-Z of Flower Portraits" ist ein tolles Buch für alle, die sich nicht ganz an das Thema herantrauen und an möglichst vielen Blumenportraits sehen möchten, was möglich ist. Es gibt eine gelungene Einführung in Material und einigen Techniken gefolgt von den Pflanzen, die mit einer Seite Erklärungen und einer Seite mit der ganzen Abbildung vorgestellt werden. Dazu werden immer sämtliche genutzten Farben abgebildet (die Farbtreue des Drucks ist sehr gut) und kleine Details Step-by-Step gezeigt. Ich würde das Buch uneingeschränkt weiter empfehlen.

each flower had a list with swatch of color so it was not hard to get the colors ready and the directions of drawing the blooms and the explanations of mixing which colors for what was easy to read. also the drawing and painting were easy to see how things went together love it

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