Flower Portraits in Watercolour (Collins Learn to Paint) - Softcover
This best-selling title will be relaunched in September 05 with a fresh new cover design. Botanical illustration is a very popular style of painting and in this book Elizabeth Conlon provides an accessible introduction to painting beautiful flower portraits.
She teaches a simple and very effective way of creating beautiful flower portraits by first completing and transferring a detailed master drawing before starting to apply watercolour. This confidence-inspiring method will enable leisure painters to tackle a variety of popular flower subjects, ranging from a magnolia, iris and polyanthus to a rose, poppy and foxglove.
Key features of the book include:
· simple guidelines on choosing painting materials
· practical advice on a variety of watercolour techniques
· detailed instructions on making and using master drawings
· stage-by-stage painting demonstrations of popular botanical subjects
The book is beautifully illustrated with Elizabeth’s botanical illustrations and is ideal for all those new to this distinctive style of painting.
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From the Back Cover:
About the Author:
Each title in the best-selling 'Learn to Paint' series is written by a professional working artist and offers the leisure painter a personal course of art instruction. Here 'Judy Martin' clearly explains all aspects of basic colour theory and shows how to put colour mixing skills into practice through a variety of colour studies and finished paintings.
· easy-to-follow information about colour theory
· advice on choosing paint colours
· how to mix colours successfully
· covers all the different painting media
Elizabeth Conlon is a member of the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists and her work is regularly shown at various exhibitions in London. This is her first book.
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0007199112
- ISBN 13 9780007199112
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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