The Watercolour Flower Painter's Handbook

A beautifully presented high quality hardback volume which would make a fantastic gift for a budding artist or an improving watercolour painter.  It is bursting with colourful illustrations and offers step by step demonstrations and practical advice.

This book shows how to capture the beauty of flowers using the beautiful translucent qualities of watercolour, whether you are painting vibrant blooms or reproducing realistic studies.

Different artists offer an intimate insight into how they approach their subjects, each bringing invaluable advice about their understanding of flower painting. Tips are included on finding a subject, the art of fast line, composition, light, shade, and how to achieve strong contrasts with dark tones and glowing colours.

Here you will learn about brushwork, blending, wet-on-dry and wet-on-wet techniques, masking, glazing, adding highlights and much more. Learn about capturing the changing seasons and the characteristics of each species. Here is a book which will encourage you to explore your own style, to be adventurous and to and record the beauty of flowers in delicate and translucent watercolour.

There are sections on the following:
Materials
Keeping a sketchbook
Learning to look
Choosing and mixing colours

The majority of the book is given over to flower paintings and drawings at various stages by a number of different artists who each have a section and annotate their pictures and describe the techniques used, the artists are:

Peggy MacNamara
Jane Leycester Paige
Marlene Hill Donnelly
Sharon Himes
Iris Edey
Ann Blockley
Freda Cox
Lizzie Harper
Olivia Petrides
Carole Andrews
Sally Robertson
Ann Smith
Tracy Hall

Review by art lover Sarah Cooper:
"A gorgeous book literally from cover to cover.  The first thing you will notice about this book is the beautiful way in which it is bound.  In this case you can judge a book by its cover because this book proves to be a little bible.  Each page features delicate pictures of hand drawn and painted flowers with details on how to accomplish these drawings. Several artists have contributed to this book making it an omnibus of vibrancy. Learning to draw and paint flowers using various techniques enhances any skills you might already have acquired. A stunning collaboration of various artists work and how to attain their amazing results!"
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Author:
Patricia Seligman

Pages:
144

Format:
Hardcover

Publisher:
Search Press Ltd

Published:
1st January 2005

ISBN 10:
1844480437

ISBN 13:
978-1844480432