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By (author) Haines Jean
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In this beautiful book, best-selling author Jean Haines shows you how to breathe life into your flower paintings, and experience the pleasure that can be gained from the art of painting flowers.
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”This is an extraordinary book.” Review of Jean Haines” Atmospheric Watercolours in The Artist Magazine
”It simply dazzles on the page and makes you want to grab your brushes and get going straight away.” Review of Jean Haines” Atmospheric Watercolours in The Leisure Painter
Jean Haines is arguably one of the world’s most accomplished and inspirational artists, and in this, her fifth book, she explores one of her most beloved subjects – flowers. Taking inspiration from her own beautiful garden in the English countryside where she lives, Jean takes you on an artistic journey that not only teaches you how to create gorgeous paintings, but also shares with you the joy to be gained from the simple act of painting flowers.
In this beautiful book, Jean explains with passion and enthusiasm how to loosen up your painting style and include just enough detail in your paintings to portray the essence of flowers, bringing them to life on the paper and infusing them with vibrancy and energy. She shares unreservedly the materials and techniques she uses, provides a wealth of expert tips and advice, and guides you step-by-step through numerous studies and projects. Throughout the book there are many glorious examples of Jean’s paintings of a dazzling variety of flowers, providing an abundance of inspiration for artists of all abilities.
Jean uses Daniel Smith materials in this book but other materials can be used to achieve similar results.
Table of contents:
Author’s welcome
Introduction
Why paint flowers?
The bare necessities
Materials
All about colour
Seeds of ideas
First steps
Simply blue
The point of no return
To Bee or Not to Bee
Painting white flowers
Simplifying complicated shapes
Standing tall
Taking flight with white
Seasons of life
Spring
Primroses
Daffodils
Bluebells
Summer
Roses
Sweet Pea
Sunflowers
Autumn
Winter
The journey
Using our imagination
A change in direction
Abstract impressions
Going for gold
Thinking outside the box
Review quote:
Jean uses watercolour about as loosely as it”s possible to do so and her paintings have an almost iridescent quality that celebrates colour, atmosphere and life. Her flowers shimmer in the light and seem almost to possess movement.
There are demonstrations, but they are not at the heart of the project – this book is about learning to see and how to communicate beauty and vision.
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”Jean is very good at explaining her working methods, so the lessons and demonstrations are admirably clear.”
”The essence of not just flower, but species is retained and you get the sense of a plant growing in the wild, dancing in the breeze and seen with the lack of distinction brought on by distance. When Jean is painting figures, it’s natural to say that she captures character and soul. While that’s not such an obvious factor with flowers, it’s hard not to make the comparison. This is what flowers are about more than what they are.”
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Jean Haines just gets better and better. There have been hints for some time of what”s here – subjects that appear as if out of a mist, painted with washes that are so wet they”re practically tinctures. If the techniques look like magic,
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