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"First published in French as Jungle áa l'aquarelle by Mango Editions"--Copyright page.
List of contents
Foreword
CHAPTER 1: Basic techniques
Essential materials
Extra-fine colors
Creating a color chart
Water usage
Mixing colors
Jungle palettes
Mastering transparency
Working in the wet
Experimenting with overlays
Negative painting
Keeping brushwork fluid
Ideas for compositions
Ideas for framing
My method
CHAPTER 2: Jungle plants
Banana tree
Swiss cheese plant
Palm tree
Other jungle plants
A varying pattern
Transparent jungle
Other ideas
CHAPTER 3: Tropical flowers
Hibiscus
Bird of paradise
Heliconia
Torch ginger
Ginger flower
Pincushion protea
Anthurium
Tropical border
Bouquet
CHAPTER 4: Urban jungle plants
Variegated plants
Pilea
Caladium
Calathea orbifolia
Other ideas
Index
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.
Summary
Learn to paint tropical flowers and foliage in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor painting for beginners. Marie Boudon’s 20 step-by-step tutorials will have you making jungle-themed art in no time. Along the way, be inspired by ideas for displaying the finished work as wall art, journal pages, handmade stationery and cards.
Foreword
Includes full step-by-step tutorials for over 20 tropical flowers and leaves as well as ideas for presenting your work as wall art, handmade stationery, postcards, greetings cards, sketchbook and journal pages.
