Enchanting Fairies: How To Paint Charming Fairies and Flowers [Paperback]

Barbara Lanza (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2007

Follow Barbara Lanza down a magical path as she shows you how to capture the wonder and mischief of fairies. Then learn to add elements such as wings, nature-inspired clothing and romantic settings. With brilliant colors and some basic techniques, your fairies will take flight!

Barbara illustrates the simple steps behind some of her favorite fairy friends:

• Baby, adolescent and adult fairies
• The fairies of Earth, Wind, Water and Fire
• A fairy for each season, from the Spring Fairy cradled in her crocus bassinet, to the silvery, grand Winter Fairy
• Fairies to fill your days, from the Morning Fairy emerging from her morning glory bloom, to the Night Fairy, with spectacular wings the colors of the luna moth

These and other fanciful fairies are pictured amid mushrooms and butterflies, lounging on clover beds and dancing across flower tops. Recreate each project as is or use as a starting point - customize colors, settings and embellishments to dream up your own original fairy creations.

"We peek into the fairies' world, and see joy and mischief in balance with nature, and when we recreate their spirit in our art, we are in harmony with nature, too."

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About the Author

Barbara Lanza has painted many fairy tale creatures, including more than 30 books for clients such as Little Golden Books, Viking and Scholastic (such as The Great Golden Easter Egg Hunt, 2000, which has sold 13,217 BookScan units since 2001). Time to Fly, published by Moo Press, contain her Fairy Lane series of watercolors that depict the fairy world about which she dreamed as a child, published as a picture book in June 2005. Her clients include Scholastic/Cartwheel, Western Publishing, Viking, Harcourt, Putnam, Marion Heath Greetings, Shenandoah Designs and the Ashton Drake Galleries. She has also recently licensed her fairy art for a series of fabrics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Impact (July 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581809565
• ISBN-13: 978-1581809565
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than just Enchanting Fairies, March 21, 2008

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The Artful Roger (Goshen, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enchanting Fairies: How To Paint Charming Fairies and Flowers (Paperback)

I thought the step-by-step painting technique demonstrations were excellent. Aside from being a how-to on painting fairies, there is a lot in the book about rendering natural details like flower petals, bubbles, leaves, water, hair, flames and snowflakes. All of the techniques Barbara Lanza uses to create her enchanting worlds can be applied to landscape and still life painting, as well as portraiture. I've learned a lot from her book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for the serious or craft painter, February 19, 2008

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Monica S. "Mixedmedia5" (Round Rock, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Enchanting Fairies: How To Paint Charming Fairies and Flowers (Paperback)

I am a self taught oil painter and craft artist who was raised on Fairy stories. When I saw this book advertised I hoped it would help me and it has. I like her Fairies, not to baby type of cute.

She has great pictures with detailed instructions of how to achieve her art work using two different media. The way the book is written, her instruction is also adaptable to any media or type of work you want to do. A friend was having trouble painting a nice drape of fabric on one of her projects. I showed her my Enchanting Fairies book and it showed her exactly what to do. This is a good investment.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanted Book, September 22, 2007

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FJW "fjw" (Warwick, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enchanting Fairies: How To Paint Charming Fairies and Flowers (Paperback)

I bought this book for my daughter who loves to draw and loves fairies. She has read other fictional works by the author and enjoyed them. This drawing guide had the right mix of how to and fictional background to keep her interested and inspired to draw the various examples as well as take them a step further. It also has enough detail in the information and interesting presentation to keep the "child at heart". If you want to draw this particular fantasy subject or just people, it is an enjoyable read that contains many useful details.