Author(s): Becky Amelia

Painting & Drawing Manuals

Be amazed at how easily you can paint stunning contemporary painted flowers for your painting, journals and greeting cards with an Instagram favorite artist.

Artist Becky Amelia shares her easy-to-follow approach to painting, with a range of beautiful flowers in her distinctive and contemporary style. Using only a few brushes and a small collection of paints, be inspired with 30 stunning botanical projects to paint, including single flowers, leaves, wreaths and bouquets. You can recreate your own artwork in Becky Amelia's intricate and delicate style with ease, just by following her simple step-by-step projects. Learn to paint sunflowers, tulips, poppies, carnations, wildflower arrangements, dried flowers and many more pretty stem arrangements. 
 
Becky uses watercolor and gouache to create her beautiful paintings, and the book is very much focused on her own processes and techniques for painting flowers, rather than traditional methods.
 
Book breakdown:

• Basic materials and techniques


• A series of 30 projects, each just 4-8. Just 4 steps per page in a simple grid.


• Start by focusing on some simple florals and leaves


• Later sections show how to construct a wreath/bouquet - something that looks more complicated, but really just uses the simple methods already learned.


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  Feel inspired by Becky's unique style and learn to create beautiful floral paintings that you too could turn into gorgeous notecards, stationery, gifts or to keep as lovely, framed paintings.