I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a helpful book on color theory!

It's packed with information and demonstrations as well as helpful tips. The book talks about color theory and how to pair and identify colors. It's a helpful guide to making beautiful pictures with a focus on flowers.

Love this book, I’m just learning about watercolours, so this has been really helpful. It’s shown me about colours as well as techniques.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

I've often felt somewhat dissatisfied with my flower paintings and the combination of colors may be the reason why. This book makes a great introduction on how to paint a bunch of flowers or bouquets where the colors just pop. Great book to have on hand when the inspiration on which hues to choose for your florals just eludes you.

The projects based on the color theories in the earlier chapters are pretty, though I do prefer my flowers to have more saturated colors..

4 stars for me. Would love to get a hardcopy!

Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowers is a tutorial book about colour mixing and theory applied to the creation of beautiful floral artwork. Once you have mastered the colour mixing stage and established your own style you can move on to the watercolour flower projects. The basics are tackled first including media , tools, and colour mixing. The techniques are step by step and the book is beautifully illustrated throughout. It is aimed at all levels and can be easily tackled by beginners. Overall a good, informative and enjoyable book.

This has a LOT of great information on color theory and color mixing. Not just your standard primary/secondary/tertiary colors, but how to create a variety of color palettes and mix exactly the colors you want. A lot of the information was new to me and I will definitely refer back to it. I also found the example color palettes and pieces using those palettes very useful and eye-opening.

There are also instructions for creating various leaves and petals with different brushstrokes and angles and several example projects of various arrangements of flowers and leaves in a variety of color palettes discussed earlier in the book. While most of these weren't particularly of interest to me, there were some that I would definitely like to try.

I am new to watercolor and to be honest it tends to baffle me, but I look forward to experimenting further using these exercises as a guide. I also look forward to using the color theory and color mixing examples in some of my other preferred media.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Walter Foster Publishing for providing an e-arc for review.

The perfect guide for the beginning artist, Watercolor Flowers by Manushree Mishra, should have a place on every artist’s shelf. After a section devoted to the basics - paper, kinds of watercolors, palettes, water control and brushes, Mishra continues to a detailed and informative lesson on color. The basics of the color wheel lead to a discussion of color temperature, characteristics and bias. You’ll lean the difference between hue, tint, tone and shade and how to create each one. Different color schemes and the “art” of composing a simple painting using a color balance follow. You’ll learn how color choice and placement will affect your design. There are lessons in technique, brush work and then directions on completing simple projects. With its emphasis on color, Watercolor Flowers is an in-depth tutorial to becoming a better artist. 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Quarto Publishing Group and Manushree Mishra for this ARC.

If you actually read the title of the book, you'll see it's about color theory as opposed to how to paint watercolor flowers. As a book about color theory, it's great. So don't be misled about what you're getting here, this is not a painting instructional, it's about improving your color techniques. The actual watercolor instructions are a few pages only.

I learned a ton about mixing colors from this book, which surprised me since I thought I already understood it well. Mishra explains things like why some cool or warm colors look so muddy when you mix them when the rest of the colors look so vivid. It's full of colorful illustrations. I didn't really care for the colors used in the book but I got a much better understanding of how to create them.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Contemporary color theory: watercolor flowers is an extremely useful addition to your art library. The author breaks down colour mixing with watercolours in to easy to understand exercises that will develop your understanding of colour mixing with watercolours. These exercises are then followed up with step by step instructions for several floral painting projects to extend your new skills further. An inspirational and practical book for those seeking to expand their skills with colour mixing in watercolour. Thanks to Netgalley for the ecopy of this book to review.

For years I am familiar with art as hobbies and business, but watercolor always become my personal challenge to start. As beginner I knew about basic mixing three maincolors from school. But how to create a beautiful realistic colors I always imagine? I have no idea. And found this book make me feel like found a secret magic book to explore. A book to forget all those hard times and restart everything fresh.

This book share step by steps, projects and activities with simple guide. The author make sure we can follow all three sections of lesson. It start with basics knowledge about colors/tools/papers/palette, then how mixing colors with recipes and later doing numerous practices to help us growing confidence create our own signature mixing. I am start reading this book with excitement of a child and end it with confidence to trying watercolorcolor paintings well armed. Such an ultimate complete watercolor handbook!

Thank you Netgalley and Walter Foster from Quarto Publishing group to allow me learning something precious with this copy. I am grateful and my thought s are my own.

Very fun book to look through - would make a great coffee table book. I think i would need more instruction that what was provided, though, to recreate some of these pieces. Much more about color theory than watercolor.

Thank you to Netgalley and to the publisher for giving me this eARC to review.

I really liked this book as it had a lot of easy steps for watercolour flowers, showed clear photographs and went into colour theory which is always great to learn. I would say get the physical book rather than the digital just for ease of access due to photographs and steps.