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Flower drawing with Jennifer Andrews

Jennifer encourages the making of flower studies in a natural environment

Flower drawing with Jennifer Andrews

Jennifer Andrews describes her methods of portraying plants and flowers in all the seasons of the year.

How to paint still lifes with flowers

Stanford Gibbons uses pastel to describe colour and composition.

How to paint white flowers on white paper by Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor offers advice on how to paint the white flowers of springtime in watercolour on white paper

How to paint fruit and flowers with a painting knife by Kate Delhanty

Kate Delhanty breaks an oil painting down into four stages for us and describes her working procedure.

Flower piece in pastel by John Blockley

John Blockley paints a pastel especially for Leisure Painter and guides us through his working process.

How to paint flowers in mixed media

First lessons with Pencil & Paint

Top Tips for Painting Flowers with Paul Riley

How do you keep your colours clean, and what are the best mixes to achieve vitality and freshness in your flower paintings? Paul Riley’s advice will help you to avoid the muddy look.

Flower painting - materials, sketching and finishing

Stanley Grimm, R.P., R.O.I. wrote a series of articles for The Artist in 1949 on the subject of flower painting. In this feature, taken from the November issue, he looks at materials, sketching and finishing.

How to Paint a Still Life with Flowers

How to paint a still life with flowers in oils with Molly Schmid

Basic Techniques of One-Stroke Flower Petal Painting

Taken from her new book - Essential Guide to Flower and Landscape Painting - Donna Dewberry shows how to use simple brush strokes to paint a variety of petal shapes for painting flowers.

Sir Cedric Morris, flower painter and naturalist

No sentimentality, but merciless accuracy is the motif of Sir Cedric’s flower paintings; Jasmine Rose-Innes reports.

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