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How to Paint:

How to Paint: Flowers in Water A

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JULIE KING V

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Publication November 2008
Price AUD $24.99
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ISBN 9781844482672
Format Paperback 292 x 216 mm
Extent 64 pages C
Illustrations 120 Colour illustrations
Imprint Search Press E
Publisher Search Press
Classification Watercolour
Series How to Paint
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BIC CODE/S AFCC, WFA
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Description F

Julie King’s deep and abiding love for flowers and the natural world shows through in the wonderful delicacy and vibrancy of her water
colour flower paintings. O
• Three comprehensive step-by-step demonstrations
• Help with selecting paints, brushes and other materials
• Clear guidance to water colour techniques, including negative painting, masking, washes and more R

About The Author M
After graduating with a first class degree in textile design, Julie King worked as an in-house designer of household textiles before
freelancing for several years; creating fabrics,wallpapers and ceramics, all inspired by her deep love of flowers.
More recently Julie was awarded the Society of Botanical Artists Certificate of Botanical merit, judged by the Senior Conservator at Kew A
Gardens,for her freestyle interpretation of an iris.

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Flowers are always a popular subject for artists, and if you have always wanted to learn the technique to portray them in watercolor, then
here is how. This is quite an exhaustive book for its modest length, and I learned a number of things I would have loved to know when I I
was a beginner. Although I will never agree that purchasing artist quality paint instead of student is a good idea for a beginner this is not
one of those books that expects you to buy up the art store. I like the way the author shows you what paint looks like on different types O
of watercolor paper, and also the section on greens. Anybody painting plants is going to use more green than any other color, and here is
a whole two pages on mixing an assortment of shades, what they look like and the effect they have when used together painting
vegetation. There are also lots of what can be called "tricks of the trade" such as how to use salt to suggest various effects, what masking N
fluid can do and the mysteries of "negative painting." There are several projects to work through to test out your new skills, each of
which shows you how to paint a different shape of flower. If you want to try your hand at this subject, then I haven’t seen much around
that is better than this book, which is 100% useful.

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