Nature Painting in Watercolor

Learn to paint and create your favorite florals, plants, animals, and more withNature Painting in Watercolor, the complete guide to painting nature in watercolor.

Find inspiration in the great outdoors and create simple, expressive watercolor paintings of the plants and animals that live there.

InNature Painting in Watercolor, beginning and aspiring artists can learn to paint their favorite ferns, leaves, trees, florals, as well as animals, in a contemporary style using the popular watercolor medium. Start by learning about thetools and materials needed to paint in watercolor; then dive into a thorough and funpainting techniques section, which covers washes, glazes, how to add detail in watercolor, and much more. If you’d like to spend more time outside (who doesn’t?), check out the section on finding inspiration outside fortips on viewing and gathering natural painting subjects, such as trees, grasses, flowers, and many other plants.

And if you can’t get outside, we’ve got you covered as well, with suggestions for where to find images online and photos to use as references. Alsolearn to sketch and keep a detailed sketchbook—skills that will help you when you get started on the step-by-step painting projects in the largest section of the book.

Thestep-by-step projects cover popularnatural painting subjects, including the ones already listed here as well asrocksmushroomsbudsbloomsbig and small trees, andforest animals. All are illustrated and painted in the author/artists’s signature contemporary watercolor style.

Nature Painting in Watercolor offers a fun, refreshing look at painting plants for today’s artist.