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Ready to Paint: Irises Julie King

Ready to Paint: Irises By Julie King

Ready to Paint: Irises by Julie King


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Summary

Julie King shows you how to paint beautiful Irises in this inspiring book, from the classic deep purple variety to the more unusual white and golden blooms.

Ready to Paint: Irises Summary

Ready to Paint: Irises: In Watercolour by Julie King

A gardenful of beautiful spring Irises in bloom is one of the most stunning sights of all, and Julie King shows you how to paint them in this inspiring book. Artists who want to learn how to create realistic pictures of these popular flowers without relying on their drawing skills have everything they need, and more experienced artists will find much to inspire them. The tracings make it easy for readers to reproduce all the projects and clear step-by-step photographs explain the watercolour painting process in great detail. Here you will find, Dutch, gold and rust, deep purple and white irises in a variety of compositions, and Julie's instructions will clearly guide you through every stage, illustrating in easy ways how to create wonderful paintings full of colour and light.

Ready to Paint: Irises Reviews

On the face of it, a book on how to paint a single flower type seems rather like overkill, but this rather excellent series has already made inroads in this direction and the method is beginning to make sense. Flowers are, after all, tricky things to pin down - they challenge just about every aspect of painting: from colour to shape and shading. Sticking to one type gives you an advantage from the start as many variations are eliminated. Julie King's paintings are a delight, doing full justice to a subject whose name itself means colourful. The five demonstrations (with pre-printed tracings) cover most of the colourways of the species and she'll show you how to capture the subtleties of tone and shading that characterise them.-Paint

About Julie King

After graduating with a first class degree in textile design, Julie King worked as an in-house designer of household textiles before freelancing for several years; creating fabrics,wallpapers and ceramics, all inspired by her deep love of flowers.
More recently Julie was awarded the Society of Botanical Artists Certificate of Botanical merit, judged by the Senior Conservator at Kew Gardens,for her freestyle interpretation of an iris.
She lives in Kent with her husband and their two daughters. A contributor to the Leisure Painter magazine she paints and runs regular classes for adults as well as painting days in National Trust and privately owned gardens.

Table of Contents

The only book in the market that concentrates on painting irises.
There are six tracings to pull out so that readers do not need to rely on their drawing skills - one for each of the five demonstrations and one bonus tracing.
Simple instructions and clear step-by-step photographs show readers how to emulate Julie's techniques.

Additional information

GOR006412117
9781844487219
1844487210
Ready to Paint: Irises: In Watercolour by Julie King
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Search Press Ltd
2012-04-18
72
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Ready to Paint: Irises