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Book details
  • Genre:ART
  • SubGenre:Techniques / Watercolor Painting
  • Language:English
  • Series title:"Painting with Ev Hales"
  • Series Number:3
  • Pages:147
  • eBook ISBN:9780987114136

"Fabulous Flowers"

Celebrate Color

by Ev Hales

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Overview

Flowers celebrate color. Painting flowers is all about riotous color and pattern. This ebook literally oozes vitality as you explore with Ev Hales the development of paintings that are based on flowers. Learn how to paint less and say more. Discover colors you didn’t know existed – what is even better learn ways to mix color. Explore the magic of flowers and their designs and discover ways to present the flowers you love to your painting audience. Build an understanding of painting techniques and subject issues which will empower you to interpret flowers through line, color or design. Practical discussions and over 100 images explore color, technique and media available to the floral artist. The subject analysis is relevant to all artistsand you will find examples in a variety of media including oil, pastel, pen and wash and watercolour. The watercolor medium is explored in detail with many different techniques discussed during the step by step examples.

Description

As part of a 10 ebook series this volume, 3, "Fabulous Flowers - Celebrate Color" by Ev Hales is an excuse to explore color almost without bounadries. Flowers have been part of our visual heritage for centuries and as such have always inspired the artist, whatever medium has been used. Discussion of pattern and how to use this to enable an artist to say little but communicate effectively is a skill you will use with any subject you enjoy. Discover how flowers can be presented as part of a landscape, still life, mass presentation or study. Follow specific examples as they are developed over a series of images to see how the artist has used the medium. These examples are specifically aimed at the watercolor artist although many of the issues relate across all media. If you have any interest in painting flowers this book is a must. If you want to add to your general painting skills in terms of seeing pattern and using color, this book is a significant part of that development. Each volume is complete on its own but when part of the Series you have a comprehensive collection of painting instructional information.

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