Painting Flowers - Softcover

Leonard, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823036308 ISBN 13: 9780823036301

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

Offers advice on buying, arranging, and caring for flowers, discusses mood, color, shape, and composition, and shows examples of still lifes and garden scenes

About this title

Synopsis:

This work is filled with illustrations by contemporary artists such as Charles LeClair, Eleanor Wunderlich and Harriet Shorr, and offers painting ideas and exercises that should encourage a fresh approach to painting flowers. Painting styles are diverse, showcasing pieces in watercolour, oil, acrylic, gouache, casein and pastel. The author gives an overview of the anatomy of flowers and provides sections on flower arranging, botanical illustration, colour and composition. In addition there is advice on selecting format, choosing viewpoint, balancing flowers with surrounding space to evoke particular moods, creating dynamic contrasts and capturing magic in everday floral arrangements.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0823036308
• ISBN 13: 9780823036301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Shefts S.