The art of depicting plants and flowers is almost as old as the history of art itself. Polly Raynes addresses this enduringly fascinating subject and shows readers how to produce plant portraits in pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, pastel and watercolor, from simple line studies to fully realized, step-by-step compositions. Readers will also find professional tips for applying the simple laws of perspective and composition, rendering realistic water, creating summer and winter scenes and more. It's all the instruction they ...
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The art of depicting plants and flowers is almost as old as the history of art itself. Polly Raynes addresses this enduringly fascinating subject and shows readers how to produce plant portraits in pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, pastel and watercolor, from simple line studies to fully realized, step-by-step compositions. Readers will also find professional tips for applying the simple laws of perspective and composition, rendering realistic water, creating summer and winter scenes and more. It's all the instruction they need to successfully capture the allure of plants and flowers in their art.
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This is an outstanding book to learn to draw and paint plants and flowers. It teaches you many different possible approaches and opens you up to the wide number of possible ways you can draw and paint plants and flowers. It is filled with beautiful examples and projects to inspire you. I have mostly stuck to painting in watercolors, but the projects in this book open up a lot of other doors that I had not explored. It is not just a how to paint or draw book, but a book that teaches you how to combine media or combine different views of a scene to achieve an entirely different scene with a better focus of improved light, etc.
The book is broken into two "parts"--Part I and Part 2. The first part of the book is focused on showing you the various forms of media such as watercolor, watercolor inks, watercolor pastels, charcoal, pencil, crayons, oil pastels, different papers and brushes, etc., and the different things you can convey depending on what you use and how. The second part of the book is 15 different step-by-step projects, each with a different focus and each teaching you a different way to use or combine various media. It's a truly captivating book. Although using so many media could become a bit confusing, Raynes is able to simplify and organize this information in an excellent way. It assumes you have had at least a small amount of experience with these different media, as it does not cover such things as how to lay a wash, brush strokes, etc..--it is more a book on showing you the possibilities and different emphasis you can give to a painting with various media, and the steps involved to achieve a certain effect in that media
PART I explores techniques and the pros and cons of each medium, mixing media, materials, the basic structure of plants and flowers, composition, perspective, color, controlling light, and comparing how to approach a drawing or painting depending on if it is inside or outside.
PART II takes the techniques introduced in part I and gives step-by-step projects with wonderful photographs of each step and excellent instructions on exactly what to do. Each project is unique in using different types of paper or media.
EX: Project I explores the use of oriental brushes on semi-rough watercolor paper to give the project simplicity and a calligraphic style.
Project 2: Wild Plants: Acrylics on gessoed masonite --this project helps you simplify and allow yourself to revise work.
Project 3: Daisies: Conte crayons and watercolor on semi-rough watercolor paper.
Project 4: Ponds and water: watercolors on semi-roubh watercolor paper--painting sunlight and shade, waterlilies and one pink-red flower--a 5 page project in 8 steps.
Project 5: Exterior Architectural Setting: Watercolors, pastels, and conte crayons on semi-rough watercolor paper--considering the trees and shrubs and large hedges in the same way as "architecture", and using watercolor to block-in and pastels for shaping and highlighting--beginning with the sketching and shadowing mapped out.
Project 6: Winter scene: Watercolors on semi-rough watercolor paper--the use of masking fluid and learning to plan the composition carefully through sketches and studies of the photograph, learning tonal and color contrast for snow or ice--GREAT EXERCISE!!
Project 7: Spring Scene: Watercolors and colored pencils on semi-rough watercolor paper--making a composite of two different views--using semi-rough watercolor paper, colored pencils, oriental brushes, watercolor paints.
Project 8: Summer Scene: Watercolors on semi-rough watercolor paper--highlighting blooms in sunlight, using masking fluid and gum arabic, watercolors, oriental brushes, semi-rough paper, pencil.
Project 9: Fall Colors: watercolor inks on semi-rough watercolor paper--pencil, watercolor inks, steel-nib dip pen, oriental brush, semi-rough wc paper.
Project 10: Botanical Gardens: Watercolor pastels on semi-rough watercolor paper, combining differnt lights and views(2 different photos) into one painting
Project 13: Interior lilies: colored pencils, pastels, and conte crayons on gray ingres paper
This should give you some idea of how much you can learn from this book. It is definitely a 5-star. FABULOUS, FUN, BEAUTIFUL, CREATIVE, UNIQUE book!!
