‘Painting the Allure of Nature’ by Susan D. Bourdet
This book again is a visual treat to the eyes. These are the four complete demos, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter that I had done from the book, with only a small amount of masking: (done in late 2007)
‘Capturing the magic of light in watercolor’ by Susan D. Bourdet
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Thursday
Nov 2008
When I saw the paintings of Susan Bourdet, I was fascinated by her style of painting, the fluid beautifully blended background washes, the simple but striking compositions, the lovely bright colours and the beautifully rendered foreground subjects of nature. I bought both her books as a next step in my learning process. She shows various mini demos for building a painting and finally four complete compositions. There are also sections on how to choose reference materials to make a good composition. I had the most magical time looking at her gallery of paintings and thought it would take a lifetime to be able to do anything like that. I mustered up enough courage finally and started on the one titled ‘warblers and wisteria’ on a very small sized paper.
Watercolorist’s A to Z of Trees and Foliage by Adelene Fletcher
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Wednesday
Nov 2008
This is another book by Adelene Fletcher that I had found useful. Here are some of my paintings done from the book:
The Watercolor Flower Painter’s A to Z by Adelene Fletcher
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Wednesday
Nov 2008
I found a Deutsch copy of this
book at a library in Cologne. This is the first book from which I
seriously started to learn to paint. It shows how to paint 50
different common flowers in an easy to follow step by step
approach. There are two pages devoted to each flower.It has a few pages
at the beginning of the book describing different techniques and
these are further highlighted whenever necessary for each flower with
step by step mini photos. The paintings are well executed and it was a
delight for me to turn the page and see a brand new lovely flower after
every two or three days of painting a flower. It also had the added
advantage of taking my German language skills to a higher level! Here
are the first few that I had done:
After a gap during which I had my
baby and shifted cities, I found this book again at a library in Basel.
Even though I hadn’t picked up my brushes for many months, I had grown
as a person and this reflected quite surprisingly in my painting. I
painted quickly and confidently and where before I was gropingly copying
each color and value from the book, this time I had the ‘artist’s
vision’ and I understood about the placements of darks and values to
build forms. If your passion is painting flowers, then I think you will
love learning from this book. Here are the ones that I had painted after
my break:
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