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Watercolor Fairies: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating the Fairy World

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Watercolor Fairies is a lavish, profusely illustrated how-to watercolor book. Authors David Riche and Anna Franklin provide detailed description of various inhabitants of the faery realms and how to create them. The book features an in-depth look at the technique of four well known fairy artists as well as art by twenty more contemporary fairy/fantasy artists.

The book starts by outlining basic watercolor tools and techniques and goes on to show how to create the fairy world and various types of fairies. Various stages of four paintings are shown, along with descriptions of each artist's painting technique. Web sites for the all the artists included (Amy Brown, Stephanie Law, James Browne, Linda Ravenscroft, Jessica Galbreth, Paulina Stuckey, Myrea Pettit, Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly, Brigid Ashwood, Kim Turner, Meredith Dillman et al), are listed in the back of the book. Whether you are a budding artist or merely enjoy imaginative art of the faery world, Watercolor Fairies is a joy to behold!

I love this book! It is far more detailed than I even imagined - eg: how-to-draw fairies, stories about fairies, history on Fairies, in-depth writing on Fairy realms - amazing! It should be titled, 'Everything you want to know about Faeries and MORE!" Fantastic purchase, I am definitely pleased!

This book is one of a kind.the pictures are beautiful.the info is very easy to use and useful.and these kinds of hands on books are few and far between.it does all it promises to do..and more..its just relaxing to look at as well..its just not another art book with insturctions..it goes far beyond that...B.W.

Stunning and beautiful, it shows all one dreams of fairies. The work of all is standout, but Ravenscroft and Dillman both have blue ribbons with their painstaking and incredibly detailed fairy portraits. So very pretty.... There are a few step-by-step paintings to show you how it's done, and to encourage you to make your own originals. They are with painters of different styles, so you can pick something natural to your own style.

There are many many smaller vignettes to help you get a feel for this kind of subject. It's worth every penny and more, a WONderul book.

My students loved this book and begged for assignments to recreate the pages in advanced drawing and compositions class. Beautiful work! They are excited about drawing again.

The book is alright, but because the author isn't really the painter of ANY of the examples, it's not really great. David Riche just collects examples of well known artist and explains how they paint. The book however, spends way too many pages explaining what types of fairies there are and all this other nonsense junk that doesn't really have ANYTHING to do with technique and painting.

If you really want a good book get "Dreamscapes" by Stephanie Pui Mun Law. It has everything this book has and more. Its better explained and written by the artist herself. The book is also longer, has WAY more examples, and explains not only how to paint fairies but their backgrounds as well. Trust me, this book is WAY better than "Watercolor Fairies" and costs the exact same amount.

This is a satisifyingly pretty book about two of my favorite things--fairies and watercolor painting. I especially enjoy the art work instruction of James Browne. I'm not a fan of the overly sexy fairies but there must be variety in the fairy realm. I'm also a bit disappointed that there are no Froud paintings that I have found in the book.

The most fun for me, an experienced water color artist, is the Directory of fairies which explains some folklore of many types of the "good people" such as Dryads, Nymphs, Slyphs, Sprites, Pixies, and Leprechauns.

It is inspiring me. I'm working on two fairy paintings now. This would also be a great book for anyone who would like to illustrate their own fairy stories.

a fabulous and inspirational book. Full of beautiful illustrations.
Highly recommended.

This is a GREAT book. Is beautifully illustrated. Great how to illustrations that even a beginner will be able to follow.

I have been collecting DEVA metal minitures (Designed by Janice Cook-England) for two years now ... I'm very much interested in Fairy Culture. This is an excellent book for anyone who is as passionate about these whimsical characters as I am.

Beautifully-illustrated works of art as well ... and detailed instrucions as to how you can start creating your own magical friends!!

A wonderful book!