Learn to create a variety of birds following the newest embroidery trend — thread painting – with Embroidery Made Easy: Beautiful Birds, by author Beth Hoyes. Published by Walter Foster, an Imprint of The Quarto Group. ISBN: 9780760375365.

Through a collection of 12 detailed, full-color patterns, aspiring and established embroidery artists will discover how to employ the art of thread painting to create a range of popular birds and waterfowl from around the world, including North America, the Amazon rain forest, and Europe.

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Thread painting is the name for using single strands of embroidery floss to create lifelike images with beautifully blended gradients of color and detail. Fortunately, the process is not as hard as it sounds! After learning a bit about how to create gradients and blend colors, anyone can create incredible embroidered masterpieces.

Embroidery Made Easy: Beautiful Birds includes:

– A primer on embroidery materials, setup, and thread painting techniques.

– Patterns that indicate where each color should go and when the gradients should begin.

– For each project, step-by-step instructions and reference images of the finished piece.

The book is perfect for needlepoint artists of all skill levels, there is no better time to learn how to create beautiful birds in embroidery.

A friend of mine in my senior’s craft group just started learning this technique and was telling us about it last month. Hearing her talk and seeing her first piece completed…peaked my interest. I received the Embroidery Made Easy: Beautiful Birds book and after going through it…I know this is a technique that I can master too! I picked out 3 beautiful birds that I want to make and ordered the supplies a few days ago. I’m excited to get started once they arrive.

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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win the Embroidery Made Easy: Beautiful Birds book by author Beth Hoyes from Quarto Knows. Good Luck!

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Drawing and painting realistic flowers is achievable! Create a wide variety of blooms and greenery using an easy step-by-step method, then add watercolor for gorgeous effects. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers, discover how to draw flowers such as cosmos, hibiscus, canola, lily of the valley, hydrangea, foxglove, and more from various angles, and learn about perspective and shading. Once you have the skills to draw a single flower, learn how to draw groupings and wreaths. Mix in leaves and smaller flowers to create a variety of looks.

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Take all of the guesswork out of creating gorgeous botanicals with Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers by Kyehyun Park published by Quarry Books and Quarto. ISBN: 978-0-7603-7330-9. It’s a soft-cover how-to book with 128 pages.

The how-to book is broken down into 6 chapters:

Materials
How to Sketch Flowers in Three Simple Steps
Basic Watercolor Techniques
Simple Flowers
Flower Clusters
Fruits and Potted Plants

You’ll learn how to draw and paint Cosmos, Lily, Balloon Flower, Hibiscus, Canola Flower, Lily of the Valley, Hydrangea, Foxglove, Orange Blossom, Olive Branch, and Potted Pilea. The author includes easy-to-follow instructions that are step-by-step to guide you from start to finish. Color photographs help you to learn how to blend colors along with the author’s easy how-to’s on gradient techniques.

This is the perfect book for beginners or those with some experience who want to brush up on their skills. In my honest opinion, great for adults, but older children and teens could easily use the book too. My daughter is 13 years old and loves to sketch and paint. She’s been using the book for the past 10 days with no problems at all.

If you want to gift the book to your favorite artist or someone who is learning…there’s a materials list in the front of the book. You could hit the art store to pick up supplies and gift them along with this great book. Think birthdays and the holidays.

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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win the Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers by Kyehyun Park from Quarry Books and Quarto. Good luck, you can enter the giveaway below.

Giveaway Details: This giveaway is open to residents of the US ONLY age 18 and over. Please read our Terms of Service & Disclaimer Policy before entering. This giveaway will close on August 17th, 2022 at 11:59 pm EST time. No purchase necessary to enter or win. 

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