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Vibrant Flowers in Watercolor
Vibrant Flowers in Watercolor
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Author: Soon Y. Warren
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book

List Price: $28.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars(5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 60333

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.8

ISBN: 1581807074
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.4224343
EAN: 9781581807073
ASIN: 1581807074

Publication Date: February 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
In 14 eye-popping step-by-step demonstrations, author Soon Y. Warren reveals her techniques for painting bold, intense florals. The featured artwork takes the glowing, light-drenched scenes watercolor is known for and elevates them to another level. Readers will find:

-Secrets for intensifying color, such as beginning with a yellow underpainting to create a warm glow

-Popular flower subjects, such as roses, lilies, irises and peonies

-Techniques for conveying mood using color, contrast and setting

-A warm and inviting instructional voice

Best of all, artists can't resist the robust, luminous quality of the author's paintings and want to know how she does it.


Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Impresionante!!   November 19, 2008
Hola desde Madrid!
Acabo de recibir este libro y simplemente confirmar que es impresionante sobre todo para los que estamos aprendiendo el arte de pintar acuarelas! No conocia a esta autora, pero sus explicaciones e ilustraciones, inspiran y ayudan. Muy muy recomendable.

Hi from Madrid! I've just received this book and simply confirm you that it's amazing, specially for all watercolor art beginners ! I didn't know this woman, but her step by step and pictures inspires and help a lot. Highly recommended!



5 out of 5 stars Vibrant Flowers   February 27, 2008
  5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Excellent book I could not put it down once I started to read it, it's so full of life, how too, step by step, techniques, all sorts of helpfull things. Highly reccommended.


5 out of 5 stars VIBRANT FLOWERS IN WATERCOLOR   January 27, 2008
  4 out of 4 found this review helpful

EXCELLENT BOOK. VERY HELPFUL. USEFUL EXERCISES THAT ARE HELPING ME GAIN A HIGHER LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY IN THE ART OF WATERCOLORS. CLEAR AND CONCISE INSTRUCTUIONS COUPLED WITH ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES.


5 out of 5 stars magnificant flowers   February 7, 2007
  21 out of 21 found this review helpful

This gorgeous watercolor book is filled with equistive colored flowers. It has instructions as to the layering technique on how to achieve these glorious paintings. It is not your ususal run of the mill watercolor book. This is sophisticated stuff. Much of her painting involves using glass as part the picture, crystal and otherwise. You just cannot believe the results. Glorious flowers and complex backgrounds. I would not recommend this book for the beginner watercolorist. I would say you have to have some experiance in washes, values and color theory. But, for the more advanced, it is a wonderful resource.


5 out of 5 stars Learn from the best!   October 30, 2006
  35 out of 36 found this review helpful

Soon Y Warren is one of the best watercolorists of our times. I was privileged to take a workshop from this humble woman who manages to produce some of the most richly colored, impacting paintings of our day. While many books just give you enough actual information to be discouraged, Soon's book is generous with her techniques. If you are not even an artist, buy it to have many photos of her stunning watercolors with their intricate crystal, vivid florals, and lush fabrics. I learned that a garage sale dinner plate works as well as a porcelain palette, that her "magic" red is "RED" well applied, that inexpensive Silver Black Velvet brushes will match a kolinsky in the right hands, and that 5 colors will paint just about anything.