Some of the most commonly seen accessories in home decor are botanical prints. This book teaches readers how to achieve the unique look of these painting, using easy-to-find bottled acrylic paints that can be thinned with water to give a layered, translucent watercolor effect. The book begins with a chapter on simple painting techniques used in this style, including how to make color washes of acrylic paints and how to place the design on to the surface to make a good composition. The heart of the book presents 8 step-by-step projects on a variety of floral subjects, including wildflowers, flowering herbs, bulb flowers, delphiniums and other favorite botanical subjects. Readers, will also learn how to accurately render leaves and stems; paint borders and tes stains; and matte, frame and display finished artwork. Drawings and patterns accompany every project.
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Michelle Temares is the owner and principal designer of Design Innovations, a product development and design firm serving the home decor, tabletop, giftware and paper products industries. She teaches her original decorative painting projects and fine art classes at the Planing Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY and at several national decorative painting conventions.
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This review is from: Painting Floral Botanicals (Paperback)
An engaging book well worth your investment with great projects for all levels of artists. Vivid colour schemes and beautiful styles that I'm keen to try myself. I enjoyed reading it and I highly recommend it!
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This review is from: Painting Floral Botanicals (Paperback)
I should have read the fine print about this book instead of taking it for face (title) value. It is a good book for acrylic painting of flowers, and someone looking for that type of instruction would be lucky to have it, but it certainly is NOT an illustration book. I will pass it along to someone else who does more generic painting with no emphasis on detail and accuracy.
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The joys of an art supply store! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lime Yellow, Baby Blue, Hauser Green Light, Light Periwinkle, Apple Spice, Violet Pansy, Turner's Yellow, Red Violet, Icy White, Aspen Green, Hauser Green Medium, Light Fuchsia, Mystic Green, Baby Pink, Painting Floral Botanicals, Glazed Carrots, Krylon Workable Fixative, Yellow Ochre, Hauser Green Dark, Heartland Blue, Purple Passion, Masterson Sta-Wet Palette, Sterling Blue, Artists Pigment, Lemon Custard New!
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The joys of an art supply store! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
floral botanicals, botanical art, watercolor paper Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lime Yellow, Baby Blue, Hauser Green Light, Light Periwinkle, Apple Spice, Violet Pansy, Turner's Yellow, Red Violet, Icy White, Aspen Green, Hauser Green Medium, Light Fuchsia, Mystic Green, Baby Pink, Painting Floral Botanicals, Glazed Carrots, Krylon Workable Fixative, Yellow Ochre, Hauser Green Dark, Heartland Blue, Purple Passion, Masterson Sta-Wet Palette, Sterling Blue, Artists Pigment, Lemon Custard New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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