The Kew Book of Painting Roses in Watercolour - Trevor Waugh - Kew Books

The Kew Book of Painting Roses in Watercolour by Trevor Waugh explores how to depict roses with clarity and sensitivity in watercolour. This paperback title is part of the Kew Books series and is published in association with Kew Gardens.

Key details

• Author: Trevor Waugh
• Series: Kew Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 128
• Publisher: Search Press
• ISBN: 9781782216568

Synopsis

Roses hold a distinctive place in art and culture worldwide, and this book sets out to help you capture their character, colour and form in watercolour. Alongside historical imagery from the Kew archives, it presents the author’s own collection of rose paintings to spark ideas and show what is possible with the medium.

Trevor Waugh begins with straightforward guidance on essential techniques, then introduces a short practical project designed to help readers understand how watercolour behaves. A strong focus is placed on mixing clean colour to reflect the purity and range found in roses, before moving on to gathering reference material, planning compositions, and bringing paintings to life with colour and light. Three further step-by-step projects follow, each building towards a finished rose painting, with four projects in total and 350 colour illustrations throughout.

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