Flowers in the Landscape [Hardcover]

Jill Bays (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1995

This work combines the popular areas of flower and landscape painting. Flowers can be the focus of a painting or merely one of the elements. Either way, they add drama and colour and can lift an ordinary landscape to a higher level. The book covers all the basic techniques an artist needs to learn, together with how to paint the colour of flowers accurately. It encourages artists to develop their ability to compose a picure successfully, and offers suggestions for expanding personal creativity. Season, climate and mood are all discussed, and their is a section on personal organization - which materials to choose and how to prepare for an outdoor trip.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

While most books on flower painting approach the subject as still life, this one places flowers in the larger context of landscape. The season, climate, light, mood, and perspective of landscape make flower painting infinitely more variable and complex. Bays, a successful painter, illustrator, and teacher in England, paints lilies in a home garden, wild roses in a hedgerow, and flowers along rivers and at the seashore. Her book is an example of another trend in art publishing, the appropriation of British publications for the American market. The quality of such books is generally excellent but, as in this case, the landscape, architecture, and gardens are decidedly British: Virginia creeper draping over a New England stone wall isn't part of the picture. Nevertheless, this is a fine book, written in fluid, readable style.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Jill Bays studied at Guildford School of Art and subsequently worked in advertising. Originally trained as an illustrator, Jill now divides her time between painting and teaching. She paints in watercolours and oils, and exhibits her work in various galleries in the south of England. She also writes regularly for the leisure painting press. Her work is extremely popular in card form, and she is the author of The Watercolourist's Garden, The Watercolourist's Nature Journal, and the Drawing Workbook. Jill lives and works in Weybridge, Surrey. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: David & Charles UK (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0715302671
• ISBN-13: 978-0715302675
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,027,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally... good GREENS!, June 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Flowers in the Landscape (Hardcover)

This book has been a godsend. I have been trying for some time to paint good solid greens in three values. Jill's book has given me the colors that WORK. Now I can mix light, medium or dark greens as I need! This book is great for those wanting to start painting from real life, whether it be from a still life in your studio, your garden in your backyard, or on top of a hill overlooking a vista. Good plein air techniques including design and compostion and how to BEGIN. This is not just a book on painting flowers.