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How to Draw: Garden Flowers

How to Draw: Garden Flowers

by PennyBrown (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $4.35
Synopsis

If you have never drawn before, this is definitely the book to learn from. You do not need any skills to start drawing straightaway because the techniques are so simple. With easy step-by-steps and a no-text approach, you will soon learn how to create a stunning range of beautiful, popular flowers. Starting with simple shapes, author Penny Brown shows you how to develop circles, rectangles, squares and ovals into spectacular pictures and she has chosen twenty eight species from a sweet pea and a dahlia to the more exotic quince. She has also included shrubs, climbers and cut flowers. By developing your drawing skills you will soon be able to choose your own subjects. This book is great for all those new to drawing, and there is a lot here to inspire more the more experienced artist too.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 32
 Publisher: Search Press
Published: 06 Jun 2013
ISBN 10: 1844488799
ISBN 13: 9781844488797

Media Reviews
The useful How To Draw series' latest title shows you how to draw a perennially popular subject, garden flowers. This series of primers shows you how to draw a set of about twenty-eight related pictures in about eight stages. It starts with the simplest lines and shapes and progresses by showing each new stage with the pervious lines in one color and the new lines in another for ease of understanding. showing what has been added to the drawing in a different color. The last two pictures show a tonal image in pencil and another image painted in watercolors. Few words are needed with this approach and they are all on one page in the form of an introduction, along with a list of the flowers chosen. As with many of the titles in this series, there is a great leap between the simple line drawing and the tonal image, and I would recommend this book primarily to those who can already draw but want to have a go at a new subject. There is a good range of flowers chosen from the invariable rose, lily and magnolia to the more unusual corncockle, globe flower and frangipani. This is a little like the way I learned to draw from the Walter Foster series and will take budding artists quite far, especially used in conjunction with other Search Press books on basic drawing skills.-Myshelf.com
Author Bio
Penny trained and worked as a theatre designer for 10 years before an increasing love of drawing and painting led her to illustration. She works in watercolour and pen and ink and has illustrated many books on craft, textile and design and also natural history and gardening. In 2011 she achieved a Diploma with Distinction in Botanical Painting from the Society of Botanical Artists. She exhibits her paintings locally in Dorset with the South West Society of Botanical Artists, and in London with the SBA. She is also a member of The Society of Floral Painters. She looks forward to continuing her parallel careers in botanical painting and book illustration.