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Some quite surprising developments have been taking place in this series of late. While it started off pretty much on-message with simple guides to straightforward subjects, some genuine little masterclasses have started appearing and this is definitely one of those. This is amazing, not because the series is going off-message, but because it turns out to be possible to do it in a format that you'd think would always tend towards the elementary. You still have the pre-drawn tracings, but all of Janet's final results here have the feeling of being freehand work. In truth, you couldn't paint a convincing flower portrait without an initial sketch, but there's absolutely no sense here of that having been filled in, which is really rather remarkable. I'm not sure I'd recommend this to a beginner in flower painting, but if you're looking to develop skills and you want a bit of help getting the shapes right so that you can concentrate on the colours and shading, then this book is unique. In fact, even if you don't use the tracings at all, Janet still has a huge amount to tell you.-Artbookreview.net --Artbookreview.net
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A gardenful of glorious roses in bloom is one of the most beautiful sights of all. Bring those images indoors with Janet Whittle's wonderful paintings of a wide variety of roses in watercolour.
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This range of books is great. Helpful at getting you painting without all the problems associated with producing a classy base drawing. You can paint away in a trice. Go on, buy one, it's super-duper.
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Janet Whittle is one of my favourite flower painters and roses are most people's favourite flower. The instructions in this book, part of the 'Ready to Paint' series can be followed by anyone. Simply trace off the design and follow the step-by-step instructions for the five demonstrations. Trace, paint, stand back and admire. This review first appeared on Karen Platt's book review website.
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This book is not for the person serious about trying to improve his or her skills as a watercolourist.If one wants to paint pretty pictures that are to be then possibly binned, by all means this is ideal especially as the tracings are included.But after that, the problem is that one of the pigments used by Ms Whittle in all of the demonstrations is considered to be fugitive whilst in the case of two other pigments,used in all but one of the demos, these are considered by the manufacturer of the pigments as being "recommended for graphic and textile design" and "without evaluation of lightfastness" i.e. not good for watercolours.So if you want to follow the instructions, you will have paintings that will most likely fade in time whether in the light or not.As the manufacturer of these two very unsuitable pigments say that these particular colours cannot be matched by mixing others, then if you don't wish to use the pigments advocated by the author, and you can't match the colours, the book is redundant as a "how to" book.If you just want tracings, then of course it is ideal for then putting in your own colours.
Lothe as I am to potentially impinge on a person's livelihood with a bad review, this is to my mind a disappointing buy and so one star for the tracings.
Lothe as I am to potentially impinge on a person's livelihood with a bad review, this is to my mind a disappointing buy and so one star for the tracings.
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