Customer Reviews

How to Paint Trees, Flowers and Foliage

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This is one great book for step by step samples and area that may need special attention.

I especially liked the step by step pictures showing how to lay down the medium and building up tones and adding details with final touches. There is much more in this book and is a great asset to beginning artist and seasoned artist to learn different techniques.

I find that this book contains a lot of basic useful information.Though I have been painting for some time it serves as a good way to review the basics.The art shown will give you ideas for your own work.All in all a very good book for this type of subject matter.

I am a beginner in every sense of the word when it comes to painting and have really struggled with painting trees. So when I did a search for "How to Paint Trees" of course this book popped up. I read whatever information was available on the book and thought "Wow, this is exactly what I'm looking for and need !!" I could not wait for the book to arrive. Well let me tell you. I was VERY disappointed. To me "How to" means I am going to show you HOW TO do something, not "let's look at a slew of finished paintings and I'll tell you WHY they did it that way !!" There are hundreds of other books available (the Walter Foster series comes to mind) that are much better. I paid $27.99 for my copy and see that are a few available for less than $10. That stokes the fire just a little more. My advice--- if you're a novice look elsewhere. If you're advanced it is very likely you already know what's in this book. Perhaps middle grounders will find it useful. I surely did not.

I've only been painting a couple of years, but I've amassed quite the reference library (surely No One can identify with that!). I found the book very informative and helpful. In more than one area, the author states the individual painter's need to "see" and paint what he "sees." If you're looking for formulas, this is not the book for you. If you're looking for guidance that is more geared toward integrating the appropriate trees, flowers, and foliage elements in your painting, then this is the perfect book for you. This is precisely what I was looking for and very pleased to find. Another point: Unlike almost all Northlight books, this one does not have the first (wasted) 20 pages of general brushes, materials, etc. Overall, exceptionally pleased.

I think that this book was a waste of time. I bought this book in the hope that it would help me and my friends on the real word to strive to a glorious finish in our painting, that we were going to show in an oncoming show(now we can't because we do not want the embarassment of showing what we painted) I wanted to learn how to paint beautiful flowers for our house but I couldn't due to the poor job of the author of the book. The only information that it gave me was the stuff that I already know. now after spending [good money] plus shipping I am in even more debt than I already was. So thanks to that book I might have to go live in a shelter just because I wanted to be liked by my house mates even more than i already am.
So if you were thinking of buying this book, DO NOT!!! it is terrible!!!!!!!!!!