Painting Country Gardens in Watercolor, Pen & Ink

by Nice, Claudia

• ISBN13: 9781581801422
• ISBN10: 1581801424
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: North Light Books

Summary

Best-selling author Claudia Nice provides all the information artists need to create gorgeous country garden art. She reviews basic watercolor techniques, including glazing and texturing, along with basic pen and ink techniques for producing a variety of line textures. Readers will find valuable step-by-step demonstrations utilizing a variety of media. They'll begin by drawing in pencil, then add watercolor and/or pen and ink. In addition to flowers, Claudia shows how to illustrate a variety of leaves, vines, moss, ferns and other country scene details, including rabbits, dogs, statues, birdbaths, wagon wheels, weathered wood arbors, fences and more. Claudia Nice is one of this country's foremost pen & ink artists and teachers, and is well known among decorative painters and fine artists everywhere.She also teaches students from throughout the world at her private studio in Oregon.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(8)
Materials and Techniques	8	(18)
Creating Lifelike Florals	26	(20)
Out of the good Earth	46	(14)
Bright Blossoms and Terra Cotta	60	(18)
Climbing Vines and Weathered Wood	78	(22)
Mossy Stones, Ferns and Shade	100	(22)
Antiques and Old-fashioned Perennials	122	(22)
Index	144