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From the creators of The Art of Botanical Painting, here is the essential guide to achieving perfect color in your paintings
The Botanical Palette, published in association with the Society of Botanical Artists, is the first instructional guide to focus entirely on the art of color in botanical painting. Each chapter in the book looks at a specific color, providing expert advice on how to achieve the right color in both painting and colored pencil work. The detailed step-by-step demonstrations reveal exactly how each flower painting is built up, from the initial stages to the finished illustration.
The Botanical Palette also includes special project features in several of the demonstrations. Each project offers a simplified drawing of the finished work that students can trace and use as the basis for their own painting. By using this basic model, they will be able to focus more closely on achieving accurate color portrayal.In addition to beautiful botanical paintings throughout, a superb gallery of paintings by members of the Society completes the book and provides additional inspiration. Featured artists include: Valerie Baines, Susan Christopher-Coulson, Brigette Daniel, Paul Fennell, Susan Hillier, Jennifer Jenkins, Barbara McGirr, Vicky Mappin, Susan Martin, Kay Rees-Davies, Margaret Stevens, Ann Swan, Sandra Wall Armitage, Brenda Watts, and Janet Wood.
- Sales Rank: #1113810 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-16
- Released on: 2008-09-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .68" h x 8.92" w x 11.24" l, 2.15 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
Review
“...You do not need to be an artist or have artistic tendencies to appreciate this gift. Enjoy it simply for its visual thrills and for its insights into ‘the harmonious and often calming link that pulls a picture together.’” (Maureen Mackey, ReadersDigest.com)
About the Author
Margaret Stevens, who wrote and coordinated this book, is the Society's president and a founding member. She holds numbers RHS medals, including the prestigious Gold Medal. While working as a freelance artist and illustrator she has also taught botanical painting to adult students for more than 20 years, and this book reflects her awareness of their challenges when using color and purchasing paints. Previous publications include a practical guide to drawing flowers, as well as The Art of Botanical Painting.
The Society of Botanical Artists was founded in 1985 to bring together artists of repute in this field. Members include winners of prestigious awards, including the Royal Horticulturaly Society's Gold and Silver-Gilt medals, and their work is held in collections worldwide.
Most helpful customer reviews
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent idea but stops short.
By William Tapia
Book review for The Botanical Palette. The idea behind this book is excellent as botanical artists are always seeking the "perfect" colors to paint their subjects. This book is also beautiful and well conceived. But the book falls short because of its printing, which is not true to the colors of the plants depicted. Perhaps botanical artists, both experienced and intermediates, can make color charts of their own for this book, detailing their own color mixing, but then this would nulify the core value this book should have.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful book!
By Debbie
I have found this book to be very helpful in learning about color theory and providing very detailed demonstrations of botanical paintings. The color testing charts were especially useful in helping me decide upon paint colors to purchase and use. The illustrations are beautiful and the demonstrations are simple enough for a novice like me to use.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
An excessive and incoherent palette
By Napa Artist
Like her other book, "The Art of Botanical Painting", Margaret Stevens relies on a multitude of colors (AGAIN) from a variety of manufacturers to present an excessive and incoherent botanical palette. Sure, the demonstrations presented in this book are interesting and the illustrations are lovely, but purchasing an almost unlimited number of artist's quality watercolors from top-end paint manufacturers like Winsor & Newton and Schmincke to "explore" a botanical palette can be very cost-prohibitive and won't necessarily make you a better artist.
But my main gripe about this book is that rather than educating her readers about the inherent quality of pigments by discussing their color index numbers, pigments' individual and inherent characteristics -- e.g., opaqueness or transparency, hue, relative coolness or warmth, staining and tinting strength, lightfastness, etc. -- Ms. Stevens instead continues to rely too much on manufacturers' color names in the demonstrations presented in this book -- for example Olive Green, Sap Green, Transparent Yellow, Gold Brown, Light Red, etc. -- without so much discussing these hues' pigment makeup. These colors' pigment formulations and handling qualities can differ from brand to brand, and can also change over time. And while she stresses the importance of lightfastness, she continues to use highly fugitive pigments in her demonstrations like the "glowing violet" colors found in Schmincke's Horadam watercolor line which are composed of methyl or rhodamine pigments which can quickly fade when exposed to ultraviolet light.
I suppose if one had the money to purchase an unlimited number of watercolor hues from 3 or 4 different brands this book MIGHT be helpful -- but it will not lay a solid foundation for the artist who wants to learn about the inherent quality of pigments which I think is CRITICAL in making intelligent choices about color, or for the artist who wants to work with and build a limited but COHERENT palette.
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