Complete Guide to Flower Painting Author:Ralph Fabri Flower painting is a tremendously popular painting subject, but until now there has been no comprehensive guide for artists on how to paint flowers in every medium. Ralph Fabri, teacher, painter, and author of the highly successful "Color: A Complete Guide for Artists," has filled this important gap. — This volume embarks with an analysis of the ... more »anatomy of flowers. Accompanying the discussion are many structural diagrams of blossoms and leaves (normally neglected in most books), with advice on how to render their complex and intricate forms. The author delves into problems of color, perspective, and composition as they apply specifically to flowers; shows the reader how to create effective lighting; and explains how to select colors for containers and backgrounds, as well as for the flowers themselves.
Fabri then teaches you how to paint flowers in watercolor, oil, polymer, casein, and pastel. Dividing his study of each medium in two parts, he first discusses materials, tools, and techniques appropriate to each kind of paint, and then puts this information into practice in five step-by-step pictorial demonstrations, one in each medium.
Other detailed chapters explore textural painting in flower subjects; collage in flowers painting; decorative, stylized, and abstract florals. Fabri concludes with practical advice on varnishing, matting, framing, exhibiting, art societies, etc.
In addition to the demonstrations, this comprehensive volume contains over 100 instructive illustrations, including reproductions of flower paintings by European and Oriental masters.
160 pages. 8? x 11. 19 color plates. 74 drawings in color. 354 monochrome illustrations. Index.« less