Painting Watercolor Florals That Glow
YA-Kunz's book is for artists who enjoy the medium and want to delve into portraying flowers. It provides beautiful color reproductions and helpful advice, as well as lots of encouragement. The author opens with a practical introduction that includes the tools and materials needed to develop watercolor technique. She helps readers learn to analyze a flower so that it can be seen both as a whole as well as a component part of a picture. A discussion of painting flowers from photographs is included. Most useful is the chapter about capturing the illusion of sunshine. Ranson's book is better suited to general readers, as it is an introduction to the entire field of watercolor. One of the strongest sections details types of brushes and how to use each one to achieve the desired effects. Following the usual sections on techniques and painting various subjects, Ranson includes several practice ``assignments.'' Kunz's controlled method of working will appeal to some, while Ranson's looser, ``free style'' approach will appeal to others.-Sandi Hammonds, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VACopyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.