if you have ever wanted to do fine watercoloring of flowers this is a book for you. I have always wanted to do this. I never had the skill. this delightful woman is so encouraging and a wonderful teacher (she gives wonderful advice on how to choose your paper and tools) i'm going into this slowly. I had started to do some watercoloring for a few years. I had started to improve, but it was a "hot mess" a lot of the time. it turns out, your paper and brushes and watercolors all make a huge difference in getting success. there are many styles of painting and this is just one of them. I have had very little training (except some online card classes and watching really good you tube videos - Sandy Allnock, Kristina Werner, Jennifer McGuire, Debbie Hughes, Kathy Racoosin are some of my favorites (they are cardmakers, but you can use their techniques for other kinds of painting) Have fun and enjoy!
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The Modern Flower Painter: Creating vibrant botanical portraits in watercolour
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From the Publisher
In this book, Anna Mason shares her innovative watercolour technique so that you can paint flowers in her clean, crisp style.
Anna's clear teaching will give you confidence in painting beautiful watercolour flowers in a modern twist on the botanical style. From complete beginners to more experienced watercolourists, this book offers in-depth instruction on drawing and painting, plus dozens of inspirational floral artworks.
There are instructions on setting up your studio and how to produce the detailed drawings.
The book covers every aspect of painting modern botanical-style portraits of flowers, from tips on gathering your references to Anna's six stage watercolour process.
Step-by-step instructions to create beautiful flower portraits, including:
Cosmos
Shown from a side-on angle, this bright summer annual provides a great opportunity to create three-dimensional effects through tone.
Viola
This little wintertime gem is a beautiful blue. As an exercise it allows us to focus on creating patterns and using the stippling brush technique to achieve rough visual texture on the petals.
Clematis
This clematis is dark and bright, so this is an exercise in achieving strong depth of colour with plenty of variation in hue while still retaining some light tones so that the flower does not look flat.
Dahlia
This glistening dahlia, is quite a challenge and I am including it for you to stretch yourself, and also for you to see that the seemingly different elements in it are all tackled in the exact same way as the other paintings in this book.
This is a fantastic guide that will inspire and challenge the experienced watercolour artist, while drawing in and reassuring the complete beginner.
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Kindle Version is a Nearly Unusable Format
This book is not formatted properly for Kindle. It is nearly unreadable in this condition. This author must be tremendously disappointed to see her work so poorly presented. The sentences and paragraphs are so jumbled it makes the context very difficult to follow. Anna Mason is a talented artist and her printed book must surely much better than this. I like to paint along with the instructions and use my tablet or PC. I have tried this Kindle version on every piece of electronics I own. It does not display correctly. There are typos and odd spacing which I can overlook. But, inexcusable is the sentence structure that has been cut and pasted incorrectly. Sentences are fragmented and continue elsewhere, sometimes on a different page even, mixed with titles and image descriptions. It is impossible to make sense of some paragraphs. Single images are spliced onto several pages into such small fragments there is no value whatsoever. Other images are so light you cannot make out the form at all. This is a pathetic attempt at reproduction and should be immediately corrected. Anyone that has purchased this Kindle version is due a correctly formatted replacement.
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017
Anna Mason does A wonderful job given you step-by-step instructions and making you feel confident when working with watercolors.. I liked her class on craftsy. I ordered the book and I ordered the DVD. I will be signing up when she has more classes. She is very talanted and does a wonderful job teaching....I’m not finished with the class or the painting as you can see ... thank you thank you thank you
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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017
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öfterKundeReviewed in Germany on July 23, 2016
vorbildliches Ebook & toller Inhalt
- S GargReviewed in India on March 3, 2017
I saw Anna's free youtube videos online and went for ...
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- JoyPTReviewed in Canada on June 17, 2024
Incredibly beautiful book and valuable learning resource
