The Encyclopedia of Flower-Painting Techniques

by Frances Treanor and Sue Burton

Book Overview

This guide to flower painting begins with advice on selecting paint and working surfaces, arranging the flowers and how to mix colours. It then progresses to techniques used by flower painters,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762402024
• ISBN13: 9780762402021
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent illustraions & instructions

This book is wonderful, especially for the beginning or intermediate flower painting artist. It has lots of excellent illustrations. It really helped me learn to draw and "paint" a wide variety of flowers. In the beginning chapter it teaches you about choosing a workspace, tools, & paper. Color theory, light & shade are also covered. Various mediums are then discussed including color pencil, acrylics, watercolor, oil & pastels. It then covers how to care for the flowers, flower arrangement, and using photos. Next, it discusses the different shapes of flowers & how to draw them. Many flowers are then painted step-by-step, shown in various mediums.Finally, the drawing and painting of leaves and foliage is shown. There is a small, but beautiful gallery in the back of the book.