Australian How To Paint

Floral Fantasies

Patricia Williams readily admits that she has had no formal background in art, although she loved to draw as a child many years ago. She did not study art at school – she has simply developed her creative skills by learning from books and observing the work of other people.

After leaving school at the age of 15, this lady trained in the Public Service and became a

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