Decorative Painting Zhostovo Style [Paperback]

Heather Redick (Author)

Book Description

Series: Decorative Painting | Publication Date: October 1999

The Zhostovo style has been much admired for its graceful brushstrokes, brightly colored flowers and luminous dark backgrounds. Clear photos illustrate each step of Redick's masterful approach-from loading the brush to building each flower petal by petal. Building on these fundamental skills, decorative painters will learn how to develop their own floral designs. Eleven magnificent projects are done in acrylics, with color conversions for painting in oils also provided.

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About the Author

Heather Redick, CDA studied with Russian master painter Larisa Dyatlova. Today, Redick is one of the premier painters and teachers of the Zhostovo style. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891349871
• ISBN-13: 978-0891349877
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #905,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great value, March 26, 2000

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Tatiana Kharitonova (Calgary, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decorative Painting Zhostovo Style (Paperback)

This book certainly fits the bill. Heather Redick's work is beautiful and inspiring, and her teaching style is detailed and informative. She provides instructions on composing your own designs,and provides a range of projects for all levels of difficulty, and on plenty of surfaces. I wish she would have included some history of the Zhostovo style, and perhaps some more patterns. Overall I've had great success with her techniques.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful instructional book!, November 4, 2002

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Trish M (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decorative Painting Zhostovo Style (Paperback)

This is truly a terrific book on zhostovo technique. Ms. Redick covers everything from choosing your tools (brushes, palette, paints, etc.), to the final coat of varnish - and everything in between is covered in exquisite detail. Heather explains everything (and I mean everything!)in very fine detail. Each step or technique is very descriptively written and fully accompanied by loads of photos, so that one only has to concentrate and follow step-by-step.
Many (if not most) painting books assume that the reader will understand what is meant by "put your word or technique here". I find that Ms. Redick makes no assumptions about what we do or do not understand by a given word or description. There is text and accompanying photos to describe pretty much anything and everything that this book covers. It does a very thorough job of covering everything from choosing colors, blending colors and how to paint each type of stroke. Every flower and leaf is broken down into stroke-by-stroke description and picture. Given that the reader is motivated to put in at least a moderate effort and amount of practise, it is what I would describe as a "no fail" painting book.
I most surely hope that she plans to do another!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Technique Book on Zhostovo Painting!, October 5, 2001

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Gail Brewer (Medina, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Decorative Painting Zhostovo Style (Paperback)

After studying Zhostovo painting in Ontario, Canada, with Heather, I found this book to be of great benefit to refresh my learned skills. It has explicit instruction on leaves, flowers, and designing your own linework borders which are very beautiful, yet the guidelines are easy to construct using a compass. The book is easy to follow and her technique is of the finest. You will master brush control if you follow her detailed instruction on strokes. How to load a brush is detailed in depth and no stone is left unturned in this area. I can feel the rhythm and movement in the clear illustrated pictures. A great book to study from...a great teacher to show you how!