How to Paint Transparent Watercolour Flowers Hardcover – June 18, 2024

Lovely book with great photos, excellent instructions, and exciting techniques! I have posted a photo of my first attempt with one of her studies. For a first try, I think it came out okay. It's very simple to place a piece of typing paper over the image, trace it, and then use that tracing on a light box to transfer the image to my watercolor paper. I actually prefer this, over interacting with new websites that want new memberships. Olga has offered up a wonderful opportunity for the reader to dive into elegant, well instructed projects that I will be very pleased to hang on the walls of my home or to give as gifts to loved ones. I can see how an inexperienced artist might find this technique a bit simplistic in appearance and that's deceptive. This technique creates a gorgeous contemporary transparent effect that is full of air and light. Technique is everything in achieving this style of painting. It does take some mastery. The instructions for mixing colors and how to use them are fantastic. Thank you Olga! Well done!UPDATE: on Web download for sketches of projects. Out of curiosity about the report that Olga's downloads for her designs were not available, I went to see for myself. It's my experience that artists are pretty reliable and trustworthy to provide what they say they will, so it was hard for me to believe that after all the hard work Olga put into this effort there would be some kind of big snafu. There wasn't. I created a free membership at the reported website, marked that I owned her book, went to visit her book page, and a lovely pdf file was available for download and I printed it out. There is no jinxy thing going on here. Olga's materials are there and available, just as she reported they are. I had no problem at all getting that file. That being said. These files are smallish and these sketches will probably fit on a 5x7 at most. I prefer to trace her drawings directly from her book, which are quite a bit larger, and paint her studies onto 9x12 watercolor paper. The suggestion that these studies cannot be done without those download is erroneous. I completed four of her studies with no downloads. Now that I've found them and printed them, I probably won't use them because they are smaller than the paintings I want to paint. Great Job Olga!!! You did a great job of sharing this technique.

This book is excellent. The author describes in great detail how to mix paints and gives great information about paint mixtures and color techniques. I was able to follow the first tutorial and recreated the eucalyptus leaves to some effectiveness. I enjoyed the work, what went wrong for me, was skipping ahead and not taking my time to follow the plan to lay the paint down correctly. But it still turned out great. I am working on the second project. I can't say enough about the thorough work this artist brought. It is well written and easy to follow, while being very inspirational. Jnetti

I'm a huge fan of Olgas YouTube channel. She's got a truly unique style and she's a great teacher so i was eagerly awaiting this book and I'm not one bit disappointed. I've already learned a lot and I'm only on the second lesson. It's not just beautiful, it's really informative on techniques for painting transparent watercolor flowers. It's even given me great ideas for other applications as well. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with such a beautiful book.I was sorry to see someone writing bad reviews based on something so insignificant written in a tiny spot under the copyright that was added by the publisher not the author... it's available on some site that they own that anyone can sign up for but Olga has given so many outlines, it's not worth giving her book a bad review. Contact the publisher don't punish the kind author who offers so much for free all the time on her channel.

Love this book!

I am mesmerized by this new watercolor process. Can’t wait to get started. Great pictures. This book has lit my fire!

My wife is very pleased with her gift!

The book has nice projects, is well written, has detailed instructions, and I really like the style of the author.

I just received this book a couple days ago, and took my time to really read through the instructions, enjoy the pictures and the illustrations of Olgs’s work before jumping in and trying it out. I have to say the instructions are so clear and easy to understand. Her style is very down to earth and this really looks very achievable if you have any painting experience at all. All in all I’d say this is a beautiful book, well written and worth every penny. I had it on my wishlist for some time now, and I’m glad I plunged in a got it.