Drawing & Painting Flowers with Coloured Pencils Book with Trudy Friend (TFDPFB) Coloured pencils are the ideal medium for flower painting and drawing due to the fine marks they are capable of making. This attractive and varied guide will take you through all the processes and techniques of the medium, adding up to a comprehensive course that provides all the skills you need. Trudy begins with a look at the many different types of pencil available, from studio and drawing to watercolour and pastel. She also looks at how different papers and surfaces work with different styles of painting. From here, you'll move to a series of fully-illustrated exercises that introduce techniques including the basic strokes and pen & ink, as well as blending and glazing and the use of masking fluid. The book is practical at every stage and you'll be working with the materials all the time, rather than just reading a dry text. Further demonstrations follow, with examples of flowers in containers, in the garden and in the countryside. These are quite short and the emphasis is on using what you've learnt so far rather than simply copying a series of stages. This is a beautiful book that cannot fail to inspire as well as instruct. Search Press - Paperback - 144 pages - Colour throughout There is FREE shipping on orders of $175 or more, and large shipping refunds on multiple purchases. Just email us with your order number and we will see what we can do. We aim to ship every order received before 02:00 NZT on the same day and most orders will be with you inside of 12 days, although some may take up to 15 working days.