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Exploring Flowers in Watercolour: Techniques and Images
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Product Description
A guide to painting flowers, foliage and fruit which demonstrates several painting styles, this text contains a chapter on basic equipment and materials, and offers step-by-step sequences for ease of use.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #270411 in Books
- Published on: 2004-03-31
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Editorial Reviews
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.
