You can paint beautiful blooms, step by step! A focused and direct approach to watercolour painting that incorporates essential basics, exercises and techniques, and fully stepped out demonstrations, taught through the lens of painting gorgeous watercolour flowers - a true workshop book. AUTHOR: Birgit O'Connor is a professional self-taught watercolor artist and has been painting for more than 20 years. Birgit specializes in florals, landscapes and other nature subjects. She lives in Bolinas, California and finds watercolor the most fluid and expressive medium to work in. Birgit’s award winning work has been recognized and published in more than 30 national and international publications, including Australian Artist and International Artist Magazine. Birgit’s memberships include the California Watercolor Society, Louisiana Watercolor Society, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in American Woman. Birgit has shown her work all over the world, including a successful one-woman show in Hong Kong. She has produced a wide variety of instructional videos available on this site on DVD and via streaming video. She has an active workshop schedule; visit the workshop page of her website for details. 250 colour photographs