Drawing & Painting Flowers With Coloured Pencils

Description

Trudy Friend's watercolour pencil work is breathtaking, and she invites you to share her love of drawing and painting flowers in this book. Covering flowers in all their glory, you will learn how to draw luminous, convincing flowers in a variety of settings, from garden chrysanthemums to sunflower-thronged landscapes. Watercolour pencils are a creative and rewarding art medium, with many exciting ranges, each with their own distinct techniques and effects. Trudy shows you exactly what you can achieve with each type, and how to combine them in vibrant multi-media pencil paintings. A masterclass in all kinds of watercolour pencils Complete course from first principles to your first masterpiece Packed with dozens of examples and hundreds of invaluable guide notes

Reviews

Trudy Friend's latest book explores the joyful world of flowers - not in isolation as is so often the case - but in their settings, whether that is an overflowing window box or a herbaceous borders, flowers in a cornfield or blossom-laden trees. Using coloured pencils, both hard and water-soluble varieties, Trudy shows you how to use them to best effect, with clear examples of techniques, step-by-step stages to follow and plenty of Trudy's annotated drawings. There's useful information on creating textures, using masking fluid, and working from photographs. Readers of Leisure Painter will be familiar with Trudy's teaching style and her beautiful drawings will win over those yet to be introduced to her work.-Leisure Painter

Author description

Trudy Friend is teacher trained - attaining her degree at Brighton College of Art. She taught up to 'A' level GCE in secondary and technical high school before teaching adults. For twelve years she and her husband, Michael Pibworth, ran art holiday courses in Devon at Smithy Art Studio. In September 2001 they moved to Tintern, Chepstow in Monmouthshire where Trudy offers private tuition, correspondence courses and an annual Easter course at a local hotel. www.trudyfriend.co.uk