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Wendy Tait's Watercolour

Flowers A

Fresh, effective and imaginative techniques D

WENDY TAIT
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Publication January 2015 A
Price AUD $44.99
ISBN 9781782210177
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Format Paperback 280 x 216 mm
Extent 144 pages
Illustrations N/A C
Imprint Search Press
Publisher Search Press E
Classification Watercolour
BIC CODE/S WFA, AJ

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Description
This book showcases bestselling author Wendy Tait's fresh, loose and inspirational flowers in watercolour. Enjoy using your paints to their F
fullest in producing fresh, loose paintings with Wendy's relaxing and reassuring approach. Learn about colour, tone and composition,
and benefit from Wendy's lifetime of painting experience with troubleshooting tips, hints to improve your painting, and information on
combining watercolours with other media for bright, stunning results. O

* Dozens of popular flowers including roses, lilies, anemones, poppies, cherry blossom, delphiniums and fuchsias
* Fresh approaches to painting: loose impressionistic flowers, wildflower landscapes, garden arrangements and gorgeous close-ups R
* Fast, effective and approachable techniques

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Reviews

There title of this rather lovely book tells you all you need to know. It's watercolour flowers painted in Wendy's unique, impressionistic,
not-over-bothered-with-detail way. As she says in her introduction, "When painting flowers, I do not make measurements, do a A
preliminary drawing, or trace the design out before I begin. Instead, I prefer to go straight into painting." If you're not familiar with
Wendy's work, this may provide a clue. This isn't about painting individual specimens, for the most part. It's not about botanical
illustration, or even the less formal flower portraits, it's about painting what flowers look like. Wendy tends to work with large T
arrangements, sprays and beds and with a varied colour range. Even when she does paint a single subject, it always has a context and the
result is much more the English Still Life than the French Nature Morte. By concentrating on colours and shapes, and allowing the viewer I
to fill in the small details for themselves by suggesting with shade and hue, she provides a sense of movement and the play of light that
makes her subjects dance off the page. Please don't get the idea that this is in any way a sloppy book, though. Wendy is an experienced O
teacher and there's a wealth of painting wisdom here about the use of colours, brushwork, techniques and washed. There are also plenty
of flower types, offering different shapes, sizes and colours. It's all so enjoyable and inspiring that I had to concentrate quite hard to
realise just how much instruction there actually it. N

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