The Modern Flower Painter: Creating Vibrant Botanical Portraits in Watercolour Hardcover – Illustrated, August 18, 2014

if you have ever wanted to do fine watercoloring of flowers this is a book for you. I have always wanted to do this. I never had the skill. this delightful woman is so encouraging and a wonderful teacher (she gives wonderful advice on how to choose your paper and tools) i'm going into this slowly. I had started to do some watercoloring for a few years. I had started to improve, but it was a "hot mess" a lot of the time. it turns out, your paper and brushes and watercolors all make a huge difference in getting success. there are many styles of painting and this is just one of them. I have had very little training (except some online card classes and watching really good you tube videos - Sandy Allnock, Kristina Werner, Jennifer McGuire, Debbie Hughes, Kathy Racoosin are some of my favorites (they are cardmakers, but you can use their techniques for other kinds of painting) Have fun and enjoy!

I have this book in hardback and love it. Its a very good book. However the kindle version has chunks of text that are jumbled up. The lovely and useful illustrations are also messed up, rendering this kindle edition uselrss.The print edition is wonderful.

The book is really detailed and covers all the different phases of painting. The illustrations are amazing. It will be a huge help to improve. Great work!

Having just returned to watercolor painting, I've purchased various books to use as guides for reestablishing. This book, The Modern Flower painter is the best book I've read so far. Anna Mason is an expert on realism in watercolor painting. Her methods are excellent. I highly recommend this book.

I like Anna's painting style although mine is a bit different. I wish she had included the photographs of the projects in the book, although you can find some on her website if you join for the tutorials. You might not need the book if you joined as a member, but I ordered it before I joined. It is still a very nice reference book if you are interested in botanical painting. I actually discovered Anna from a Craftsy class. I have painted in oils forever but avoided watercolor due to it's unpredictability. I never felt I could control it. Between Anna's style and Billy Showell, I have learned how to use this medium and it is becoming a favorite. Oils are fun but take forever to dry. As an impatient person, I get immediate gratification using the glazing method with watercolor. For anyone who is a beginner my best advice is buy professional grade watercolors, decent synthetic brushes and good paper.

I use this book for watercolor classes. Anna Mason is a great instructor. Love my book.

This book is not formatted properly for Kindle. It is nearly unreadable in this condition. This author must be tremendously disappointed to see her work so poorly presented. The sentences and paragraphs are so jumbled it makes the context very difficult to follow. Anna Mason is a talented artist and her printed book must surely much better than this. I like to paint along with the instructions and use my tablet or PC. I have tried this Kindle version on every piece of electronics I own. It does not display correctly. There are typos and odd spacing which I can overlook. But, inexcusable is the sentence structure that has been cut and pasted incorrectly. Sentences are fragmented and continue elsewhere, sometimes on a different page even, mixed with titles and image descriptions. It is impossible to make sense of some paragraphs. Single images are spliced onto several pages into such small fragments there is no value whatsoever. Other images are so light you cannot make out the form at all. This is a pathetic attempt at reproduction and should be immediately corrected. Anyone that has purchased this Kindle version is due a correctly formatted replacement.

It's well written and easy to follow. Worth the purchase if you want to learn how to paint flowers!

I held off on buying this book for a long time as I thought I really didn't need another step by step watercolour book. It is so stunning though that I couldn't resist, and I'm really glad I have it. The colours are incredibly beautiful, notably including her table of greens. The book is very visual and demonstrates clearly how to create those gorgeous colours on the paper through layering. lt's like some important elements of Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie made super easy to understand and follow. Same with creating hue and tone. It's very visual and explains things really well. So even if detailed watercolour isn't your preferred style, there is much to learn and practice about creating very beautiful colours with layering. Very well done.

livro maravilhoso para quem faz auqrelas, flores maravilhossas

Rien à dire : envoi dans les temps et réception parfaite . Livre impeccable .

Excelente profesora y pintora es Anna Mason. Se aprende paso a paso !!

Libro che descrive in modo esauriente e mostra con esempi dettagliati i segreti dell'acquerello