Flowers A to Z with Donna Dewberry [Paperback]

Donna Dewberry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 4, 2004

Painting your favorite flowers is easy with Donna Dewberry!

Add the beauty and elegance of painted flowers to your projects. It's quick and fun with Donna Dewberry's popular one-stroke technique! This easy-to-use reference provides all of the instruction and inspiration you need to successfully paint more than 50 garden flowers and wildflowers in an array of stunning colors.

Donna provides complete instruction beginning with step-by-step photos of her basic one-stroke painting technique. You'll discover the secrets of painting leaves, vines and other foliage common to a variety of flowers. With handy color charts and tips on painting flower petals of all kinds, you'll learn how to create unique floral designs that can be used on furniture, walls, picture frames and more, with fabulous results every time.

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About the Author

Donna Dewberry is without doubt the most successful and well-known decorative painter ever. She has done nine books for North Light since 1998. She is contracted through 2007 with PBS stations nationwide for her program One-Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry and is also a regular presenter on the Home Shopping Network. Her designs are licensed for home d?cor fabrics, wallpapers, borders, stick-ons, bedding, etc. Donna's most recent North Light books are Donna Dewberry's Designs for Entertaining (2006) and Painting Fabulous Flowers with Donna Dewberry (2006).

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (July 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581804849
• ISBN-13: 978-1581804843
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The world's most adored decorative painter, host of PBS' "One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry," and popular QVC personality, Donna Dewberry takes her popular garden motif and enhances clothes, gifts and the family home using machine embroidery, in Donna Dewberry's Machine Embroidery Flowers. She's sold 500,000 copies of her previous books.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Donna Dewberrry book yet, October 1, 2004

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Ouida (Longwood, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flowers A to Z with Donna Dewberry (Paperback)

I loved the layout of this book. The first 2 chapters explain the brushes and basic painting techniques with very clear pictures. The third chapter shows you color blocks of the paint used in the book. This is very helpful if you need to match a different brand of paint. The A to Z flower projects are shown close up so the detail really shows and each project has step by step photo's of Donna building the flowers. I loved the example pages of filler flowers and shadow leaves. But the last part of the book on Floral Design and Composition is especially helpful to any who struggle with placement and design.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lot of information!, July 18, 2005

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E. Barber (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flowers A to Z with Donna Dewberry (Paperback)

This is my favorite One Stroke book thus far. However, I had already purchased her video "flowers for all seasons" and the "one stroke painting course" and "easy murals" books, so I had a feel for the basics. Her books tend to have some of the same information in each (which I find annoying), but "flowers A to Z" has a lot of variety, so you can learn a lot of techniques just by going through and trying the different flowers. I disagree with the reviewer who claimed the pictures are of poor quality...they look fine to me. Overall, I think this book is a good value.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent selection of various flowers and how to paint them, August 8, 2004

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Penmouse - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flowers A to Z with Donna Dewberry (Paperback)

Dewberry offers a wide variety of one-stroke flowers to paint using clear instructions. The real beauty using her painting method is the lack of "must do" instructions. Instead, the author gives clear directions on how to make nifty decorative flowers that are easily painted without patterns. A good read for the novice decorative painter like me.