This highly inspirational yet practical guide to flower painting provides a unique opportunity to discover the approaches and techniques used by acclaimed artist Julie Collins in her strikingly beautiful, contemporary work. Julie guides the reader through the materials she uses as well as her color mixing and compositional techniques, giving a unique insight into the workings behind her creative process. She then explores in detail the techniques she uses to put her ideas down on paper with such success--clear explanation is accompanied throughout by step demonstrations, exercises and a stunning collection of finished artworks. She then moves on to explore advanced techniques such as painting abstracts and white flowers, as well as a rare insight into vellum work and the incredible levels of detail this can produce.
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Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolor
This book has wonderful pictures that shows you how to paint with a light touch. It is so hard for me not to be heavy handed with color. Yet this infuses color lightly.... I was encouraged to go for it without intimidation. For the beginner it states things in such a way that are easily understood that some painters( and books) think are intuitive - and simply are not for those of us coming from another media or are just learning at all. Good tips, worth trying...Lovely illustrations.
[Tuesday, June 17, 2008]
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One of my favorite watercolor books
This book is full of GORGEOUS paintings. The no background style showcases the botanicals beautifully. This is one of my all-time favorite watercolor books.
[Tuesday, October 30, 2007]
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Terrific art book
I rate this book: 5 stars
This is a great book, terrific colors, technique, and over all extremely inspirational. Leaves the wannabe artist panting for more....However, the only thing that I think Julie Collins should have added was the actual designs for her gorgeous to have been projects for the novice artist. Other than THAT, it is truly a work of art, a masterpiece.
It was a pleasure leaving my feedback for this wonderful book.
[Wednesday, June 13, 2007]
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