Painting Realistic Flowers in Acrylic (Decorative Painting) - Softcover

Beck, Arlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0891347763 ISBN 13: 9780891347767

Publisher: North Light Books, 1998

Synopsis

Offers stroke-by-stroke instructions for painting flowers, including mixing colors and highlighting floral details

About this title

From Library Journal

Each of these three books deals with the complex challenge of painting flowers, but the similarity ends there. An instructor at the Scottsdale Artist's School, Arnett, using the medium of oil, combines flowers with other elements of classical still life painting. The results are truly sumptuous. In seven lessons she demonstrates the soft petals and strong colors of magnolias, African tulips, and cascading roses in combination with lush peaches, pears, and figs. Here's a fine book for advanced students. By contrast, Beck uses acrylics and a purely decorative approach. The book is misnamed, for the flowers aren't rendered realistically but in the formal style decorative artists use for ornamenting plates and baskets. This is a fun and approachable volume for beginning and mid-level craft painters. Riley, teaching a freestyle method in watercolors, offers the finest of the three books. In an extremely well-laid-out manual, Riley provides a kind of master class that teaches as much about how to observe flowers as how to paint them. He covers past masters of the genre, as well as non-Western perspectives. The technical sections on lighting flowers, resist painting, and two-color brushwork are beautifully done. If only one of these three excellent volumes can be purchased, make it Riley's.
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Edition details

• Publisher: North Light Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0891347763
• ISBN 13: 9780891347767
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128