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The article focuses on an Australian artist's botanic floral illustration project. The botanical watercolors were executed on Arches Hot Pressed 300gsm paper with sable brushes. She used the colors cadmium red, permanent rose, cerulean blue and French ultramarine. Photographs of the botanical illustrations are provided.

The article reports on the winners in the Challenge Number 28 of the "Australian Artist" Magazine's Art Prize Challenge Series, which focused on flowers and gardens. Robin Gosbell of New South Wales won the first prize with her pastel painting "Irises at Bucine." Jan Lawnikanis of Queensland won the second prize with her watercolor painting "August Presents." Photographs of the top winning art works are presented.

The article offers step-by-step instructions on painting the perfect flowers and floral blooms in watercolor in Australia. It outlines the art materials and tools that are needed and describes a systematic, precise and clean approach to glazing and drawing that will help achieve the results sought by artists. The issues' implications for painting are also cited.

The article presents several notable painting entries from the "Art Prize Challenge No. 23: Flowers & Gardens," including "Sunkissed," by Elaine Fraser, "Country Garden Old," by John Newman and "Maturity," by Leontine Jena in Australia. There are also artworks from artists Sylvia Hallam, Elizabeth Forner, and Louise Demase.

Features winners in the 'Australian Artist' magazine's art prize challenge series for still life and floral paintings. 'Quinces' by Jan McNeill; 'Azaleas' by John McCartin; 'Bananas' by Chris Hundt; 'Candle Protea' by Barbara Hunt; 'Golden Gums' by Erica Halton.

Presents a selection of entries to the 'Australian Artist' Challenge No. 6 contest featuring still life and/or floral paintings.

Focuses on the early flower paintings of Australian artist Nora Heysen. Heysen's exhibitions; Heysen's mentors; Creative preferences; Characteristics of Heysen's early flower paintings; Psychological explanation for Heysen's controlled style.

Focuses on the development of floral motifs used in Australian decorative plasterwork. History of floral decorative plasterwork; Use of floral motifs in ceiling centers and cornices; Use of indigenous Australian vegetation as motifs for plaster decoration; Materials and techniques.

The article focuses on the author's painting of Australian floral emblems. The first phase of the project is determining the floral emblem of every Australian state and the approximate size and color of each flower. The botanical watercolors were executed on Arches Hot Pressed 300 gsm paper. She used different colors, including cadmium red, permanent rose and cerulean blue and French ultramarine.

The article discusses Michael Reid which gets the new world of art dealing with his company by having an active online presence, gallery space in Sydney, Berlin and Murrurund and regular booths at top art fairs. It states that he is having his 2018 Melbourne Art Fair Michael which features the artist and brilliant photographer Joseph McGlennon and 'Eclectus Australis', the series of works of quirky fauna and flora that visualise a contemplative atmosphere of a 19th-century neoclassical library.

Looks at archives of photographs at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Lindley Library. One of these was taken at a London Flower Show on 9 January 1934 and depicts Australian flowers frozen in blocks of ice.