What to Paint: Flowers in Watercolour - Softcover

Tait, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844486583 ISBN 13: 9781844486588

Publisher: Search Press, 2011

Synopsis

Flowers in Watercolour

About this title

Review:

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

About the Author:

Wendy Tait studied at the Joseph Wright School of Art. She now teaches watercolour painting to adults, runs residential courses and often gives demonstrations to Art Societies. She produces designs for publication as greetings cards, and in 1998 was commissioned by the Jersey government to produce a series of autumn flower paintings for postage stamps. She has also written articles and produced illustrations for specialist art magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844486583
• ISBN 13: 9781844486588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112