Contemporary Flowers in Mixed Media

Soraya French, Soraya French

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Batsford Ltd
02 July 2021

Botanical art; Art techniques & principles; Painting & art manuals

"Contemporary Flowers in Mixed Media is more than a ""how-to"" on flower painting, encouraging artists to explore new and exciting ways to create flower paintings that are unique and individual. The complexity of flowers and foliage shapes offers great potential for introducing some abstract and semi abstract passages. Beautifully illustrated, the book covers the colours, shapes, patterns, and textures particular for various flowers through the seasons. Spring has a section on mixing fresh greens with vibrant colours of spring flowers and foliage. Summer includes an explosion of colours found in summer flowers, gardens and the countryside. Autumn flowers brings a myriad of stunningly rich hues of red, orange, yellow and gold. The colourful greys, blues, and violets typical of a Winter landscape and garden, offer a great opportunity to work with a more sophisticated and quieter palette of colours.

As well as interesting ways of painting individual flowers, the book explores flowers within a still life, landscape, woodlands, seascape, meadows and hedgerows. Creative use of a wide range of mediums, including acrylics, watercolours, different varieties of pastels, collage and texture mediums are dealt with in each chapter. The book is packed with exciting new ideas and ways of moving towards a contemporary and impressionist painting style."

By: Soraya French, Soraya French
Imprint: Batsford Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 226mm,
ISBN: 9781849946148
ISBN 10: 1849946140
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Welcome Exploring the media Dynamic design strategies The language of colour Seductive surfaces Explore further Acknowledgements Index

Soraya French is a well-known professional artist who runs very popular workshops from her studio in Hampshire. She has been the recipient of many art awards and is a regular contributor to The Artist magazine. She is author of Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media (Batsford) and two practical art books: 30-minute Acrylics and Dynamic Acrylics, both published by HarperCollins.

Reviews for Contemporary Flowers in Mixed Media

'A thoroughly thought through guide to flower painting ... a book that will lift your spirits' -- Art Book Review 'There is so much to like about this impressive volume ... This is a book that's a riot of colour, instruction and inspiration' -- Henry Malt * The Artist *