- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books; illustrated edition edition (31 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1581800312
- ISBN-13: 978-1581800319
- Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.1 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,937,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Susanna Spann shows artists how to capture the unmatched beauty of crystal and flowers in watercolor by "building" paintings like a Polaroid picture, developing them layer by layer, value by value, transforming them into works full of drama and feeling. She shares her techniques through mini-demos, instructional art and a complete painting demonstration that cover everything from value and texture to composition and color. Readers will gain the skills they need to produce images of startling melancholy, wondrous joy and everything in between. Susanna's clear instructions make learning easy and fun, providing artists with the knowledge and confidence they need to make their watercolor work glow with light and color.
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Susanna Spann teaches watercolor workshops across the country and for many years was a part-time instructor at the Ringling School of Art and Design. Her work has appeared in several North Light publications, including Splash, Enliven Your Paintings with Light, Painting with the White of Your Paper and Best of Flower Painting.
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The visual beauty of sparkling crystal and delicate flowers still brings tears to my eyes after years of painting this subject. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Essential resource for painting still-lifes,
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This review is from: Painting Crystal and Flowers in Watercolor (Hardcover)
Susanna Spann's instruction on painting glass and flowers covers a wide range of topicss, from how to paint from photos, assuring the proper range of values, composition, color, backgrounds, and how to work AS a painter, whether for pleasure, presige or profit.
The demonstrations in the book are excellent. There is a value scale demo--how to paint shades of gray to get a value scale. You use this against the colors in the subject that distract the eye so that the right intensity of light or dark is achieved. This is one of the most important principles in painting anything, even abstracts. The author's handling of various backgrounds helps the artist achieve a painterly result that is far different from rendering photographic detail simply as it's seen. This is vital if you want your paintings to stand as paintings and not as renderings of snapshots. One thing of GREAT value in this book is how to set up photography for your painting. Lighting (spot, outdoors, high key, low key) helps the painter achieve dramatic results, whether from highlights on glass or dramatic shadows. If you paint flowers and glass, this is a must-have text. If you do other still life subjects, this still is a valuable text even if you never paint a flower. Great reference and highly recommended.
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4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews) 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Crystalization of Nature,
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This review is from: Painting Crystal and Flowers in Watercolor (Hardcover)
Susanna takes you on a whirl wind trip into the depths and colors of crystal, shadows and reflections. Until I bought this book, I never viewed any of Susanna's artwork, but I took a chance since I am so moved by flowers in crystal. Upon reading this book, I am even more moved and excited. Susanna has a way of describing the necessary steps to develop crystaline artwork in a user friendly manner. I had no fear to go out to my backyard with my crystal vases and take dozens of rolls of film that I want to translate to paintings. I was convinced to use bright and bold colors by her demonstrations, colors that have often intimated me. Susanna's paintings of crystal and flowers want you to "Ting" them to see if they are real or just an image on paper. Her demonstrations are easy to follow and I was surprised by the outcomes. She lead me on a path of success. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in painting crystal, reflections and flowers.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Painting Crystal and Flowers,
By Patricia E. Theonnes "PET ARTIST" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Painting Crystal and Flowers in Watercolor (Hardcover)
This is more then painting crystal and flowers. Any artist in should have it as a reference. There is information on setting up still life, photographing setups,and composition errors. There is a chapter values in which you make your own value chart. Then you hole-punch the value chart which helps to see values in your painting or setup. I have over 250 art technique books. I thought I knew everything. YOU MUST GET THIS BOOK.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful Instruction,
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This review is from: Painting Crystal and Flowers in Watercolor (Hardcover)
This book is the answer to a watercolorist's questions about value and color. Susanna provides demonstrations and clear, precise instructions and information. You can easily teach yourself to arrange, photograph and paint crystal vases and flowers using this book. It provides very clear,useful and practical information about composition, backgrounds, and shadows. It is a basic handbook that every artist show use as a reference every day.
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