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Top 10 Watercolour Botanical Books

Top 10 Watercolour Botanical Books

A selection of my favourite botanical watercolour and art books.   Flemish Artists Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around...

Best Paper for Watercolor

WATERCOLOUR PAPER  Choosing the ‘best’ watercolour paper   In this section, we will go through everything you need to know...

Theory

Grey Watercolor

Grey Watercolor

Since the 18th century, Grey has been a vital aspect of watercolour painting. Grey is simply the combination of all...

A case for the superiority of transparent Pigment

A case for the superiority of transparent Pigment

Pigments range from either transparent to more opaque. The history of both are complex, but it is well known that “true” watercolour...

Yellow Watercolour

Yellow Watercolour

What you need to know about Yellow Watercolour, mixing and application. Mixing with Yellow When mixing colours it is important to...

Techniques

Antique Green and Pink watercolour mixing tutorial

Antique Green and Pink watercolour mixing tutorial

I go over how to create beautiful muted greens and dusty pinks for painting an antique style wild rose watercolour...

Antique Botanical Watercolour Course

Antique Botanical Watercolour Course

Learn the joys of subtle, detailed Botanical Watercolour with Cleo Samantha. Everything you need to paint a beautiful, antique and...

Wet on Wet Watercolor

Wet on Wet Watercolor

Wet on Wet is a watercolour painting technique. With the wet-on-wet technique, we can create ethereal and dreamy textures. This technique...

5 Traditional vs digital watercolour techniques

5 Traditional vs digital watercolour techniques

5 Traditional Watercolour techniques vs digital watercolour I wrote the following blog post for Escape Motions, using their amazing digital...

Videos

relaxing Rabbit on mushroom watercolour illustration

relaxing Rabbit on mushroom watercolour illustration

The more I look at this rabbit's face, the more I realize how badly I drew the proportions... lol—definitely giving...

Relaxing painting of Babushka Bunny

Relaxing painting of Babushka Bunny

Babushka bunny Watercolour 𓋼 Sticker unboxing 𓋼 Calligraphy 𓋼𓍊₊˚✧𑁍.ೃ࿔   Hello dear friends 𓋼𓍊₊˚✧𑁍.ೃ࿔, I am so in love with...

Relaxing Wizard bunny watercolour

Relaxing Wizard bunny watercolour

Fantasy as escape - wizard bunny illustration and NEW sticker unboxing I hope you enjoy this little ramble while I...

Mouse in cloak Watercolour

Mouse in cloak Watercolour

  Relaxing watercolour painting video of a little mouse wearing a cloak and a stalk.   Sigmund The Cave Dweller,...

Swatching 12 Windsor & Newton Watercolour paints

Swatching 12 Windsor & Newton Watercolour paints

These are the only 12 watercolor paint colors that I've owned in the last 4 years. There wasn't really any...

Grimms' Fairy Tale Watercolour ✥ Star Taler + rambling vlog

Grimms' Fairy Tale Watercolour ✥ Star Taler + rambling vlog

This was great practice for painting a night time scene, I really loved using masking fluid along the edge of...

Folded paper card fortune game Vintage Watercolour

Folded paper card fortune game Vintage Watercolour

I made this nostalgic paper card game for a friend's birthday. I recall making these as a child with friends;...

Paint with me Butterfly Bunny with axe

Paint with me Butterfly Bunny with axe

Hello lovelies, I adore this bunny; her name is Isabelle. Though she may be little, she is deeply protective of...

How to mix muted Watercolours

How to mix muted Watercolours

In this video I show you a simple way to mix muted watercolours. Muted Watercolour palettes are great for antique...

Arthurian tree traditional illustration & forest wandering

Arthurian tree traditional illustration & forest wandering

I painted a mystical tree that was surrounding King Arthurs sword in a rock. There is a doorway to enter...

Cozy video painting Hadwig the owl from Hogwarts

Cozy video painting Hadwig the owl from Hogwarts

I found it fascinating to learn that Hadwig is a girl and named after Saint Hadwig, the patron Saint of...

Niphredil Snowdrop Watercolour Painting

Niphredil Snowdrop Watercolour Painting

  Niphredil first grew in the forest of Neldoreth at the birth of Lúthien. They sprang forth through the cold winter...

Cozy Hermit Fox painting in watercolour - Timelapse

Cozy Hermit Fox painting in watercolour - Timelapse

This painting was a bit of a struggle but I love a struggle because it usually means growth. I learnt...

Cute Watercolor Beatrix Potter illustration Jemima Puddle Duck

Cute Watercolor Beatrix Potter illustration Jemima Puddle Duck

Hello lovely lovelies :) I hope you're all well. I apologize to anyone who is here for the botanical art,...

Painting a fantastical Squirrel in Watercolour

Painting a fantastical Squirrel in Watercolour

Just trying to get out of a creative rut. Ive felt uninspired by everything botanical. Anyway, squirrels in fantastical outfits...

Botanical Artist Vlog ✿ Easter Card illustration, Apple leaf Watercolour

Botanical Artist Vlog ✿ Easter Card illustration, Apple leaf Watercolour

Let me show you what a few days in my life look like as a botanical Artist. I hope you...

Tulip Leaf watercolour relaxing painting video

Tulip Leaf watercolour relaxing painting video

I am so happy to be film another “Paint with me”, it brings me so much joy. ✦ I drew...

Exploring Nature | Fly fishing a mountain creek

Exploring Nature | Fly fishing a mountain creek

Finding beautiful wild brown trout in cold mountain creeks in the west of Victoria. We waded up a creek where...

Watercolour Kingfisher | Silent Vlog | ASMR

Watercolour Kingfisher | Silent Vlog | ASMR

A master study of John Ruskin's kingfisher in watercolour. I start by doing a rough sketch in graphite. I then transfer...

Photo Journal

Joseph Banks Florilegium

Joseph Banks Florilegium

Joesph Banks' Florilegium is a beautiful collection of copperplate engravings of botanicals collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while...

PRE-RAPHAELITES: DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS exhibition

PRE-RAPHAELITES: DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS exhibition

I spent the evening at the Pre-Raphaelites: Drawing & Watercolours exhibition in Ballarat, Victoria.  I let off an involuntary shriek...

Bird Drawings & Sketches | Art Portfolio

Bird Drawings & Sketches | Art Portfolio

Art Portfolio of Bird Drawings and Sketchs. I love the above little bird because it took me 5 minutes to...

Botanical Drawings & Sketches | Art Portfolio

Botanical Drawings & Sketches | Art Portfolio

A collection of my flower drawings.  I will add them as I go.  I dont usually enjoy line-art, but I...

Literature

Nature Poems

Nature Poems

Nature never did betray…The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,Through all the years of this our life, to leadFrom...

Art Quotes | Art Philosophy Quotes

Art Quotes | Art Philosophy Quotes

“After all, the object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”―...

Botanical Quotes | Botanical Art Quotes

Botanical Quotes | Botanical Art Quotes

  Those who have never been moved to rapture by the tender curve of a blade of grass, the wonderful...