Chinese Watercolour Techniques for Exquisite Flowers - Hardcover

Through a number of step-by-step demonstrations, readers will learn how to paint flowers using a variety of techniques, including Chinese Spontaneous style, Chinese Detail style and traditional Western watercolour style.In addition, the author provides creative twists to each style including printing with glass, wrinkling rice paper, using a glue resist, blowing colour and painting on primed canvas. The flowers portrayed in the book are favourites among watercolour painters and many are painted in two styles to provide a variety of options to readers.

Lian Zhen was born in Canton, China, and started sketching and painting when he was ten years old. He received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and his Masters degree in Architecture from MIT in 1996. His art teaching experience includes eight years at the University of California at Berkeley.