Product Description

Discover the secrets of painting beautiful, lifelike flowers with this comprehensive, accessible guide. 90 color illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415729 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Synopsis
A guide to painting lifelike flowers, foliage and fruit. Demonstrating a variety of styles and providing hints on choosing subjects, keeping plants fresh and setting up and holding the brush. Contains over 90 colour paintings which demonstrate a wide variety of flower species with tips on interpreting flowers.

From the Publisher
The Artists' Choice Art Instruction Book of the Year!
Discover the techniques of painting beautiful, lifelike flowes with this comprehensive, accessible guide. Packed with step-by-step sequences, stunning illustrations and handy tips, this is a highly visual, inspirational guide to painting watercolour flowers. It will encourage the experienced artist to experiment and beginners to pick up a brush.

The author starts with basic equipment and materials alongside essential hints on choosing what to paint, keeping plants fresh, setting up and holding the brush. Key techniques are highlighted throughout, including wet-in-wet, wet-on-dry, softening, mixing colours and using masking fluid. A variety of painting styles is demonstrated, from a first quick impression of poppies to a detailed botanical study of hellebores. Paintings range from white orchids in a tropical greenhouse and freshly picked bluebells in a vase, to a rambling, pink dog rose.

Siriol Sherlock's flower paintings have been widely exhibited in the UK and she now works full-time as a painter and teacher. She is President of the Society of Floral Painters and a member of the Society of Botanical Artists.

Customer Reviews

This is an absolutely brillant book.
I have been looking for a book like this all my life - where the watercolour mixing and mingling on the page does the work, and based on a technique that is simple and attainable for the amateur. Full of illustrations (colour) and to the point advice my only quibble is that I would have liked to have seen something about the effect of directional light on the flowers to dramatise them for painting purposes.