This beautiful book by Billy Showell is exquisitely executed and includes wonderful watercolour portraits of fruit and vegetables, some with an unconventional, often amusing, twist to traditional botanical studies. The book is packed full of useful information, expert advice and guidance on materials, and Billy takes you through you through what you need to get started, composition and colour mixing. She also covers an array of painting techniques, such as wet-into-wet, lifting out, how to use masking fluid and how to strengthen colour and much much more. Billy also looks at light and shade before demonstrating how to tackle the challenging subject of painting white onto white plus flowers and blossom. She then takes you through four stunning step-by-step projects, which include Kohlrabi, a Pumpkin, a Lemon and a Heart of Berries. This wonderful book of beautiful paintings will guide and inspire you.enabling you to take your paintings to a whole new and exciting contemporary level. Search Press . Hardback . 128 pages . Colour throughout