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The Modern Flower Painter: Creating Vibrant Botanical Portraits in Watercolour
by Anna Mason
Award-winning floral artist Anna Mason shares her innovative watercolor technique so that you can paint botanical watercolor flowers in her clean, crisp style. Inside, you'll find: - How to get started, from setting up to workspace to drawing your projects - How to work with watercolor to achieve the right tones, hues, and color mixes - How to hold your brush, apply paint, and other useful brush techniques - How to paint watercolor flowers in Anna's signature 6-stage process - 6 step-by-step flower portraits including clematis, violets, tulips, and more!
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Sea Glass Crafts: Find, Collect, & Craft More Than 20 Projects Using the Ocean's Treasures
by Rebecca Ruger-Wightman
Learn to make stunning crafts with these beautiful sea gems! Sea Glass Crafts includes twenty step-by-step projects for you to create beautiful works with your collection of sea glass. Accompanying each project are beautiful full-color photographs which visually aid readers in the instructions as well as display the finished product.
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Casting Flowers: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Botanical Art
by Rachel Dein
Introduces botanical bas-relief as a rewarding method that encourages even the most basic beginners to revel in the ability to record a plant's texture, pattern, and delicacy in fine detail, creating compositions as small as a single stem or as complex as a field of wildflowers. All it takes is clay, flower, plants, and plaster. ... From small plaster tiles featuring a single flower portrait to large panels that suggest an entire garden full of blooms, botanical castings reflect every artist's desire to capture the ephemeral in nature. A meditative activity that encourages artists to explore their gardens and natural spaces for materials, botanical bas-relief teaches readers how to track the progress of the seasons, immortalizing the plants at the moment when they are most alive.
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Plant and Ink: Make Your Own Plant-Based Ink
by Judith Rosema
Plant-based inks are richer in colour than synthetic inks, producing a wide range of tones and unique, stunning visual results. Extracting and storing these inks ready for use is made simple in this beginner-friendly book from botanical artist Judith Rosema. The 27 seasonal plant 'recipes', which yield 49 ink colours, accompany you throughout the year, from the warm yellows of spring daffodils to the rich browns of hazel in winter. Each recipe contains a guide to the plant, the lightfastness of the ink, step-by-step instructions and beautiful images. The book also includes guides to creating oil paint, egg tempera, watercolour, gouache, chalk pastel and screen-printing ink, to make the most of your pigments.
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Lavender for All Seasons: A Gardener's Guide to Growing and Creating with Lavender Year-Round
by Paola Legarre
Lavender for All Seasons covers everything you need to know about the basics of growing lavender. Inspirational crafts and recipes that follow the seasons of the year will empower readers to discover how to integrate lavender beyond the garden and into the apothecary, pantry, and crafting space. For over twenty years, gardening expert Paola Legarre has been implementing sustainable farming practices, nourishing soil life, avoiding herbicides and synthetic fertilizers, rotating plantings with cover crops, and encouraging pollinators and beneficial insects through diversified plant hedgerows, and companion planting.
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Watercolour Flowers for the Absolute Beginner
by Fiona Peart
Flowers are a perennial favourite of artists; and what better medium than luminous, delicate watercolour? Fiona Peart's new book is a complete course in learning to paint flowers, packed with handy hints and tips for new artists - or indeed anyone who wants to capture the beauty of flowers with paint. Numerous simple step-by-step exercises are seeded through the book to allow the reader's skills to grow towards more complex and rewarding projects. A range of flowers are included, from hydrangeas to camellias to hellebores. Fiona's clear, down-to-earth and friendly instructions encourage the reader to try different styles, while the 21 full-size, traceable outlines included mean that even those who don't wish to draw can get started quickly and simply, following the instructions provided.
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A Beginner's Guide to Sumi-E: Learn Japanese Ink Painting from a Modern Master
by Shozo Koike
This practical guide is perfect for those looking to try this ancient art form for the first time! In this book, Japanese master artist Shozo Koike reveals the simple secrets of Sumi-e, offering step-by-step instructions with clear photographs and online video tutorials showing you how to paint 19 traditional subjects. Sumi-e is the meditative Japanese form of ink painting taught by Zen Buddhist monks to encourage mindfulness and an awareness of our surroundings. It uses only ink, water, a brush and paper to capture natural objects and landscapes in a vivid, spontaneous fashion.
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Complete Starter Guide to Macrame: 15 Knotted Home Creations Made with Natural Materials
by Angela Barretta
Complete Starter Guide to Macramé gives you all the secrets to assembling beautiful home décor with your own two hands, embracing a chic bohemian style that can liven up any space. Author Angela Barretta--a macramé enthusiast with hundreds of thousands of subscribers across her YouTube and TikTok channels--steers you through easy-to-master macramé knots to assemble 15 original creations. Join the journey with high-quality, step-by-step photos that will have you cinching up macramé wall hangings, fruit hangers, and much, much more.
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The Tree Forager: 40 Extraordinary Trees & What to Do with Them
by Adele Nozedar
Foraging is one of the fastest-growing nature-related pastimes in the UK and US. There are many books about foraging but this is the only one that focuses on what is arguably everyone's favourite plant - trees! It profiles 40 incredible trees from the UK and US - from apple, ash and bay to walnut, willow and yew, gorgeously illustrated with watercolour, pen and ink botanical illustrations. In her humorous, inspiring and warm text, Adele explains how we can forage from our trees, not only for food, but also for home remedies, for ingredients to use in cocktails and ferments, and for materials to make toys, musical instruments and other useful things.
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Treasure Book Making: Crafting Handmade Sustainable Journals
by Natasa Marinkovic
Hobbies tend to require a big investment, but Author Natasa Marinkovic, creator of popular YouTube channel Treasure Books, focuses on upcycling the available materials around us. Learn how to make beautiful journals--without purchasing book-binding tools, use what you have! With the things you have at home, create projects that are both useful and beautiful.
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