Simply Paint Flowers 25 inspiring designs in easy steps

by Amelia, Becky

• ISBN13: 9781800920392
• ISBN10: 1800920393
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-10-18
• Publisher: Search Press

Summary

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 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.

 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.

Author Biography

Becky Amelia is a watercolour artist, inspired by all things botanical. She has enjoyed painting and drawing for as long as she can remember, but art took a backseat while she studied Mathematics at university and then worked in a job she loved after graduating. In 2018, her passion for painting was rekindled and Becky started to paint every single day, teaching herself new techniques and refining her style over time. She set up an Instagram account (@beckyamelia_art) to share her painting journey with an amazing community of fellow illustrators and artists across the world. Inspired by nature in all its forms, her favorite subjects to paint are flowers, leaves, fruits and vegetables. 


While pregnant with her son, Becky set up a website (www.bybeckyamelia.co.uk) and an Etsy shop (www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ByBeckyAmelia), and started designing botanical prints and illustrated stationery, which she now sells worldwide. Becky lives in Cornwall int the UK and spends her days happily juggling motherhood, painting and running her art business.