Painting Flowers Paperback – 15 Nov. 2015

This book is amazing value for money and written by one of the UK's leading botanical artists. If you are a beginner or experienced artist but new to botanical painting this book will be invaluable as it contains everything that you will need to know with lovely illustrations and plenty of them, but without being overwhelming. I would definitely recommend this book, that I keep referring back too for help with my work.

A superbly written and illustrated book. So very helpful in my quest to paint beautiful flowers!

Bought as a gift - not really my thing, but the person I was buying it for appreciated it, so if you like water colour flower painting this may well be for you. The illustrations are well-reproduced. Quality of paper is good and text and illustrations well laid out.

Lovely book with lots of things I want to try. Pictures are clear and it even lists colours needed. Definitely recommend.

Excellent explanation of techniques and very encouraging and motivating to all who wish to pursue this type of art.

Beautiful book and really great tutorials and so good have purchased a couple as gifts

Good book. Illustrations good. Well worth the money.

I wanted to like this book, but I really don't. It needed proof reading. It needed testing to see if the language and examples helped the beginner — they don't.The information is so badly written that it's a jumble of confusion. The pages on how to do a watercolour wash couldn't be more confusing. Luckily I collect botanical watercolour books and do some painting myself, or I'd have been spending a very long time trying to work out what on earth Winch was on about.She tells you to make a square, wet it, paint it, then rinse your brush, dampen it on some cloth (dampen it? Not remove the excess water?) and then go back to the painted square and 'move the paint' about until it's pale (in one area I assume). That's your wash completed — Wow. Good luck with that. You'll get waterlines and overworked paper surface and be making a very messy wash. Is she telling us to lift out here? No explanation on the brush being dry enough to suck up paint. And a graduated wash doesn't need having a brush 'moved over' it if you're not creating a highlight. Simple things can be very confusing to a beginner in any subject: words have to be got right; the order of operations has to be got right. By following what is said word by word the novice has to able to come up with what's shown in the diagram (once in a hundred years -- without needing to read more books to clarify).If you want to learn watercolour techniques from the level of complete beginner, I'd suggest looking at a Billy Showell book. If you like drawing flowers then maybe Ann Swan's excellent book on coloured pencil painting or that of Sue Vize. Showell, Swan and Vize explain exactly what they mean knowing the novice will have no idea what they're talking about. They don't seem to assume, oddly, like Winch, that you know anything they're saying already. They cover some really important things Winch misses out.The flower paintings and diagrams are neighther simple and clear for teaching nor pretty to aspire to. There are a few faboulous examples of Winch's work at the end of the book. I wonder why on Earth she did this sort of naive style for teaching (it isn't a simple style: in some places she explains a technique with a little drawing that makes no sense At All to the novice, for example the dry brushing technique simply shows a sketch of a splayed brush. No information. Nothing). I find it scruffy compared to the other books I own. I feel it's insulting to not run your explanations past a real beginner and an editor before you print. It feels like maybe Winch needed some more instructions herself before instructing others.And what about botanic art? She mentions botanical art and fitting plants on the page in life size, but doesn't then discuss things like whether to use gouache or body colour at all. She makes white hairs with white gouache and misses the opportunity to explain it's not always welcome in botanic illustation or kept to a minimum. So is this book on flower painting, botanic illustration, watercolour painting? I have no idea.An example of the utter confusion is the use of the word 'wash'. She says to wash the paper with clear water. Then run a colour wash over it. Then wash your brush... She doesn't explain how to glaze, how to wet the paper and wait for it to show an even sheen before applying a colour glaze or wash. Just wash, wash wash.See the attached image to witness this confusion for yourself. Make white veins, make dark veins... how Jill? What are these little illustrations for if they don't demonstrate the actual technique?See also the masking fluid illustrations. It isn't even the same illustration with the masking fluid taken off. It's a mess. It doesn't show the effect clearly of using masking fluid. It shows some stamens that have been really messily painted round. With masking fluid you can do a nice neat wash/glaze over the top and on removal have some neat little white spaces. That's why it's used — not to go badly drawing round the stamens. It's not just bad teaching, it's weird.This happens again and again. Some illustraion will show the first part of a technique and then instead of the same illustration being shown in the next picture, but further along in the process, we get another one, two or three paintings of the same thing. Different paintings. It's so utterly bewildering. You can't think 'ahh, yes, I see how she got from this to that', because this and that are different.My review could be better written, but I'm not publishing it. This book badly needed more work before being sold.

Mi aspettavo una guida un po’ più elaborata, ma senza poter vedere il contenuto in anticipo, non posso lamentarmi. Ho trattenuto il libro, senza restituirlo.

Los dibujos dentro del libro dejan bastante que desear, si buscas inspiración no creo que la encuentres aqui, no tiene buenas imágenes.

nulla di speciale. tutorial migliori su internet. non indispensabile