DIY Watercolor Jungle: Easy watercolor painting techniques for tropical foliage and flowers

by Marie Boudon

Overview

Learn to paint tropical watercolor flowers and foliage in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor painting for beginners. Marie Boudon’s beautifully presented creative course will get you started in this expressive and fun medium.

Find out about the essential materials you need, learn about color mixing for an on-trend jungle palette, get expert tips on transparency, overlays and negative space, discover ideas for compositions and then work step-by-step through over 20 tutorials for jungle plants and flowers.

From palm trees, monstera leaves and other jungle foliage to tropical flowers such as hibiscus, bird of paradise and anthurium, you'll find easy exercises and inspiring ideas for jungle-themed art, which is a huge trend in interiors and surface pattern design.

Along the way, be inspired by Marie's gorgeous ideas for presenting the finished work as art pieces, journal pages, handmade stationery and greetings cards, inspirational quote frames, personalized gifts and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446308134
Publisher:	David & Charles
Publication date:	04/28/2020
Series:	DIY Watercolor , #2
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	631,588
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Chapter 01 Basic Techniques

Essential materials 10

Extra-fine colors 14

Creating a color chart 16

Water usage 18

Mixing colors 20

Jungle palettes 24

Mastering transparency 26

Working in the wet 28

Experimenting with overlays 32

Negative painting 34

Keeping brushwork fluid 36

Ideas for compositions 38

Ideas for framing 40

My method 42

Chapter 02 Jungle Plants

Banana tree 46

Swiss cheese plant 50

Palm tree 54

Other jungle plants 58

A varying pattern 62

Transparent jungle 72

Other ideas 82

Chapter 03 Tropical Flowers

Hibiscus 86

Bird of paradise 88

Heliconia 90

Torch ginger 92

Ginger flower 94

Pincushion protea 96

Anthurium 98

Tropical border 100

Bouquet 110

Chapter 04 Urban Jungle Plants

Variegated plants 122

Pilea 128

Caladium 134

Calathea orbifolia 144

Other ideas 154

Index 157