Flowers in Watercolour - Couverture souple

Tait, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844486583 ISBN 13 : 9781844486588

Editeur : Search Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

If you're reading this, the chances are that you already have an idea of what you want to paint. However, flowers offer such a variety of colours, shapes and challenges that it can be a problem to know where to start.

Wendy has taken the basic idea of this new series and turned it into a primer of flower painting that allows you to get started without having to worry about where to start.

Following a wonderfully informed and informing chapter on Sources of Inspiration, the book features 24 simple compositions, mostly of single varieties, each with an outline you can trace down onto your own paper. Wendy also shows you how you can combine ideas from different sources to create mixed posies with a wider range of colours and shapes. She offers valuable advice as well on your basic palette and the most common mixes you will need - worth the price of the book on its own.

This book does more than many before it to clear away the mystique that surrounds flower painting.

Search Press . Paperback . 112 pages . Colour throughout

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Given that this is only the second title in this series, full marks to Wendy for subverting it already. Not so much because I always rather admire a rebel but because it means that the format is already being opened up and that can't be a bad thing if it's not to become formulaic. It's immediately apparent that the outlines which are (so far) a feature of the series are here really only a jumping-off point and that Wendy has introduced a great deal more subtlety than is possible in a fill-in-the-tracings approach. In fact what she provides, through a series of simple and simply explained examples, is one of the most thorough-going primers in flower painting around. There's a good variety of flower types, some very handy notes on colour mixing for this style of painting and basic captions that tell you how the main elements of the composition were handled. Beyond that, it's up to you, but Wendy provides so much of the basics that you should be able to fly solo without much difficulty.-Artbookreview.net --Artbookreview.net

Présentation de l'éditeur

The new What to Paint series is perfect for readers who already have some painting skills and experience, but are looking for inspiring painting subjects. Each book has 24 beautiful full-page size paintings, a colour palette for each one and informative captions pulling out details, tips and techniques used in various parts of the painting. At the back of the book there is a free outline for each painting for readers to transfer or scan on to watercolour paper. There are also instructions on transferring the images, and on selecting parts of the outlines to create new compositions. There is information on transferring the images, mixing colours, painting backgrounds and creating new compositions by using only part of an outline. Paintings include tulips, daffodils and anemones, snake's head fritillary, a posy of spring flowers, fuchsias, cherry blossom in a jar, oriental poppies, and many roses for which the author makes no apology because she loves them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Search Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844486583
• ISBN 13: 9781844486588
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 112