Drawing Flowers - Walter Foster
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Drawing: Flowers With William F Powell – Walter Foster

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With Drawing: Flowers, learn to create detailed, realistic flowers in graphite pencil from basic shapes.

It’s no wonder we’re naturally attracted to flowers. Their fascinating and varied forms, colours, and textures provide a never-ending source of artistic inspiration. This book shows the step-by-step process of rendering various types of flowers—from their basic shapes to their completed forms. It begins with tools and materials needed to get started, as well as the shading techniques that bring flower drawings to life.

Among the flowers you’ll learn to draw:

  • Tulips
  • Regal Lily
  • Daffodil
  • Carnation
  • Poppy
  • Pansy
  • Hibiscus
  • Fuchsia
  • Peony
  • Foxglove
  • Chrysanthemums
  • Bearded Iris
  • And more!

 

In this large-format, 40-page reference guide, William F. Powell teaches you how to render a variety of beautiful flowers in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading to develop form and realism. With a wealth of detailed step-by-step projects to both re-create and admire, Drawing: Flowers shows artists how to develop a flower drawing to its fullest.

The How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for aspiring artists. Drawing: Flowers allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

 

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Author / Artist Information

William F. Powell was an internationally recognized artist and one of America’s foremost colourists. A native of Huntington, West Virginia, Bill studied at the Art Student’s Career School in New York; Harrow Technical College in Harrow, England; and the Louvre Free School of Art in Paris, France. He was professionally involved in fine art, commercial art, and technical illustrations for more than 45 years. His experience as an art instructor included oil, watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencil, and pastel—with subjects ranging from landscapes to portraits and wildlife. He also authored several art instruction books, including several popular Walter Foster titles. As a renowned master of colour, Bill conducted numerous “Color Mixing and Theory” workshops in various cities throughout the U.S. His expertise in colour theory also led him to write and illustrate several articles and an educational series of 11 articles entitled “Color in Perspective” for a national art magazine. Additionally, he performed as an art consultant for national space programs and several artist’s paint manufacturers. Bill’s work also included the creation of background sets for films, model making, animated cartoons, and animated films for computer mockup programs. He produced instructional painting, colour mixing, and drawing art videos.

MEDIUM: Craft, Drawing & Illustration, Other Craft

SERIES: How to Draw & Paint

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781633227774

SIZE: 10.25 in x 13.75in / 260.35mm x 349.25 mm

PUBLISHED: May 7, 2019

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