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Vere Foster's simple lessons in water-color, flowers : eight facsimiles of original water-color drawings and numerous outline drawings of flowers, after various artists, with full instructions for drawing and painting

Foster, Vere, 1819-1900 · 1884 · London : Blackie & Son · 20 pictures

Vere Foster's 1884 London instruction book from Blackie & Son teaches amateurs watercolour flower painting through facsimiles of original drawings and numerous outline drawings. The pictures are clean black line drawings of roses, azalea and passion flower on plain cream pages, with leaves and buds drawn in loose contour, useful to a designer wanting simple botanical line art or a template for colouring.

Watercolor painting

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