Botanical Illustration in Watercolor (Practical Art Books) Review

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Botanical Illustration in Watercolor (Practical Art Books) ReviewThis is the best book on botanical illustration I have found. It is suitable for all levels including complete beginners like myself. Although some artistic talent is certainly an asset, closely following the instructions here will come as close as possible to teaching virtually anyone to paint. From drawing to painting, it offers everything you need to create your own beautiful botanical artwork.
The book starts out by helping you choose a subject with practical advice on fruits, vegetables, flowers, mushrooms, bulbs, roots, trees, ferns, vines and more. Then, creating a space to work in and selecting materials from brushes to paper is covered. I love the many excellent tips on mixing colors.
The next section focuses on the many aspects of drawing including setting up a still life, planning the picture and transferring your drawing to watercolor paper. There are detailed step-by-step instructions for drawing a huge variety of botanical subjects including orchids, tulips and foxgloves. I really liked how the author discusses the various shapes of flowers such as round, teacup and tubular and then shows you how to block them out.
The final section covers the painting process. Along with numerous step-by-step demonstrations on painting botanicals there are hints on correcting mistakes, protecting your paper and tips on painting white flowers. Creating the initial washes, adding shadows, shading, layering and highlighting are included as well. To finish your artwork the author gives advice on matting, framing, exhibiting and selling your artwork.
The finished illustrations throughout the book are so beautiful. Each one has information on the kind of paper they are painted on, size and title.Botanical Illustration in Watercolor (Practical Art Books) Overview

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Watercolor: Realistic Painting: Learn to paint step by step (How to Draw and Paint) Review

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Watercolor: Realistic Painting: Learn to paint step by step (How to Draw and Paint) ReviewSince a book is like a child, I gave birth to the title I am defending. The one star review I think was rather unfortunate because the reviewer did not read the description of the book very carefully. The reason I am able to achieve such photo-like realism with my paintings is the airbrush (and stencils). The airbrush enables any artist to apply opaque watercolors (which my work is done in) in beautiful gradations, something nigh impossible with a brush. The description of the book spells this out very clearly. I wish the reviewer had taken the time to read about the contents of the book and even if the techniques are not something they want to pursue, studying the paintings can also be educational. A lifetime of painting experience went into the book and I felt I HAD to come to its defense.Watercolor: Realistic Painting: Learn to paint step by step (How to Draw and Paint) Overview

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Natural History Painting: With the Eden Project Review

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Natural History Painting: With the Eden Project ReviewI ordered this book, not knowing what was really inside. I am pleasantly surprised. As an artist for over 40 years, I know that the materials information is excellent. It gives you choices on what to buy, shows you the difference between different brands, tells you how to set up and care for your equipment, even gives you exercises in becoming familiar with the different pencils, brushes and paints. Next, it tells you how to approach a subject, what you should know about the subject and where to find it, even has you list adjectives that you need to keep in mind as you draw a subject, then takes you through an exercise that is really a journey of drawing a subject, the steps from blocking in to refinement to the final shading and highlighting, including texture. It tells how to start a sketchbook and has an exercise, like in all the chapters. The chapter on color theory and mixing is fantastic. It shows you how to mix all the colors you need from the 6 paint colors recommended in the materials chapter, and shows color pages of exercises of allot of color mixes. Every exercise is really wonderful for both the beginner and advanced artist that needs help with natural history painting. It even includes directions and and an exercise in mixing those numerous greens that are so essential in depicting nature accurately. In the chapter on painting, the examples are in watercolor, the most widely used medium of natural history painters. It even illustrates, in color, the most common mistakes on handling your water and gives you exercises for practice on handling water and paint for the best results. There is a nice chapter on examples and exercises on handling texture. Then the author uses the rest of the book to address numerous natural history subjects, each with it's own chapter, i.e. rocks, bird and their feathers, bugs, sea-life and spirals, bones, a great chapter on iridescence, and finishes up with a chapter on display and mimicry. The last chapter encourages you to use your knowledge in lots of other ways, from sculpture and mathematics to applied and fine art to decorating a gorgeous wedding cake through to drawing and painting greeting cards. Anyone interested in natural history would enjoy this book, but for those of us who are fans of natural history books like "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Anne Dillard that have been itching to draw and paint the subjects we find so fascinating, this is a great place to start. You know how it is in studying natural history, the more you know, the more you have to learn. Painting natural history subjects is a great way to learn about them. You don't really know a subject until you are forced to look close at the intricate details and try to depict your subject by drawing, painting, and modeling a sculpture that represents it in realistic art.Natural History Painting: With the Eden Project Overview

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The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide Review

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The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide ReviewYou need a good set of watercolors and some experience in painting in order to use this book. I am an art hobbyest who is interested in drawing flowers and other plants, therefore, I thought this "Introductory Guide" would be helpful to me. In fact, it is one of four such books that I recently bought from Amazon on this subject. (will post reviews on the other ones soon). While this book is at least as lovely as any of the others, it is actually all about watercolor painting.(Maybe it has something to do with the way the book was translated from the French?)
I work in graphite, pen-and-ink, colored pencils, and, newly, pastels. When I do branch out to watercolor I plan to first use my 16 pan Prang set from when I was in school. Where the book discusses materials, it depicts a professional watercolor set of FIFTY-THREE pans, and also, watercolors in tubes, such as professionals use. I'm sure I will be drawing (I mean "painting") plants with my good school Prang set soon, but you really do need a wide variety of pigments in order to get the full benefit of this book. **I just checked: such sets cost HUNDREDS of dollars**
On each beautiful two-page layout, a plant type is discussed (tiny type-face, though), gorgeous examples are shown, and a chart is presented with the names and swatches of the exact colors needed to render the subject. I've never seen this done, and it seems to be extraodinarily helpful. At the same time, this is no paint-by-number type of book, or one that teaches slavish copying.
Another thing I love about this book is botanical information it provides. Seeing and painting living plants is one thing, but to understand them, their anatomy and other characteristics is to add understanding and meaning to art work, in my opinion. (I hope to purchase a large "botany for artists" book sometime, too.)
Lovely book for watercolor artists. I don't think it is too short--there is plenty of information, and many types of plants and exercises. The type font is just rather small, especially when they use the script-style print. I can use my "readers glasses", but I can't do watercolors, so it was rather a waste for me.The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide Overview

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Watercolour Fruit & Vegetable Portraits Review

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Watercolour Fruit & Vegetable Portraits ReviewI followed the directions in this book for painting fruits and vegetables, and I was very successful for my ability level. The color mixing instructions are very good. This book is very encouraging to me, and I'm sure it will be for others.Watercolour Fruit & Vegetable Portraits Overview

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