Botanical Watercolours through the seasons - Sandrine Maugy

Botanical Watercolours through the Seasons by Sandrine Maugy is a practical guide to botanical painting, built around 12 step-by-step projects inspired by the changing year. Presented as a hardback, it offers an all-year-round approach to painting flowers and plants.

Key details

• Author: Sandrine Maugy
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 176
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 15 July 2022
• ISBN: 9781782219439

Synopsis

Organised by season, this book guides readers through botanical watercolours with a clear introduction to tools, setting up a workspace, and core techniques. It also sets out an ethical approach to materials, including sustainably sourced paper, cruelty-free brushes, and eco-friendly paints, alongside colour theory tailored to botanical subjects and advice on creating realistic shadows without unnatural greys.

Each chapter pairs Sandrine Maugy’s own botanical artwork with tutorials that offer beginner, intermediate, and advanced options, and seasonal subjects such as spring daffodils, summer sweet peas, autumn ginkgo leaves, and a winter holly star composition. A foreword by Tom Brown, Head Gardener at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, frames an invitation to paint either in step with the seasons or by focusing on favourite plants.

Further details

• Subtitle: An all-year-round guide to painting flowers and plants
• Dimensions: 216 x 280 x 17 mm
• Illustrations: 500 colour illustrations

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