The Watercolor Flower Artist's Bible: An Essential Reference for the Practicing Artist (Artist's Bibles) (Artist's Bibles, 10) (Volume 10) Spiral-bound – January 27, 2009

This is a wonderful little book, just the perfect size does not take up a lot of room on my work table. I loved it and spent a lot of money before I finally came across exactly the Flower painting book I wsas looking for. If you are wanting to disect flowers before you paint them, the book for you would be looking for is The Art of Plant Evolution. However if you want a good solid book on nothing but painting flowers then the Watercolor Artist's Flower Bible is the book you want.It get's right to the point of sketching and painting flowers, it does not go into other paintings that I am not interest in, or books that I probably already purchased that tend to make one believe you are getting good sketching and watercoloring of flowers tedchniques, books that I have purchased that totally missed the point. I have truly spent a fortune on books regarding painting flowerss etc., and almost all of them have been a disapointment.This wonderful little book goes right into "flowers" and after my first hour of sitting down sketching and painting flowers I am thrilled with the results.Claire Waite Brown does a great job showing how the most ususal color combinations really do produce some beautiful flowers.Before you spend another cent I hope you will save your money and make this Book your number one with learning to paint and sketch flowers. There are lots and lots of color choices that I loved and I produced some great finished results.The illustrations are wonderful in a step by step sketch/watercolor, the print of this book is nice and dark, unlike a book I ordered earlier this week and can hardly read the print, the color combo's are wonderful, and there are lots and lots of pretty flowers in this book to whip up in no time. The pictures in this book are not sloppy with color running into color, page after page of the same thing.I feel comfortable recommending it for purchase, I love the book. I hope you will enjoy it too!

I am really enjoying this book. It starts with some general information on colors, paints and other materials and tools and techniques, lots on techniques. Then it moves on to flowers grouping them by shape. There are tutorials sprinkled throughout. The next thing is a directory of all the flowers in the book grouped by color and listed by name and with a little photo. After you choose a flower you go to its listing. They are organized by color and alphabetically . Which shape grouping is also included. There is a little box at the edge of the page that tells you what colors you need. There are step by step (usually 3 or 4) instructions with pictures. Between colors are beautiful examples of floral watercolor paintings. While not every flower could be included; there is enough here for you to use what is provided to figure out how to paint most any that are not in the book. You could also use this for other media like colored pencil.

I've learnt so much from this book. The step-by-step instructions are clear and some of the exercises seem relatively easy. However, I found that the steps aren't illustrated so well.... For example, in step2, you paint something, only to realise that step 3 doesn't connect, as if you should have done something extra in step 2 that was not explained.... that is quite confusing for me. Also, the style of the flowers also seems really old school .... not very contemporary. Even then, this is my go-to step-by-step resource and I think because of it, I'm so much better at watercolor than when I'd just begun. So I do recommend this book for absolute beginners.

There is a lot of info packed into this small book! The most basic info is also included: color, composition, painting techniques, paper and supplies, etc. so beginners will benefit, too. As an intermediate painter but new to flowers, I found it to be extremely helpful. I especially liked the Flower Painters Palette page that lists recommended paints with the "must have" colors noted. The flowers are grouped according to color. Each kind of flower includes 3- or 4-step how-to-paint illustrations listing paint colors used. This book contains a wealth of information, about 140 plants--flowers, leaves and berries--are represented within its 192 pages including a 3-page index. I like the wire-spiro binding, the book lays flat. Highly recommend it to those wanting to learn how to paint flowers. There are examples of many artists' work in addition to the how-to illustrations exposing the reader to a variety of styles. This book is printed in full color (and nicely printed.) It's small size was not a problem for me, I learned a lot and find this a great addition to my reference library.

This book is a marvelous book for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced watercolorist. With the book being spiral bound, the pages will lay flat so that the drawing and painting of the flowers are an easy reference for the artist. The book also references the different colors of flower gardens (pink, yellow, white, blue, ect) to help in the selection of flowers to be drawn and painted. The different kinds, shapes, and colors of leaves and berries are included too. I am very glad to have this book in my library and highly recommend the book to anyone, who is looking for an artist bible of flowers.

A truly beautiful book that features a wide variety of practical floral watercolour painting techniques. Highly recommended for floral painting enthusiasts.

I love this book and look forward to many years of using it when I need just a little push. It has a little bit of water damage. However, it does not affect the overall quality and ability to use it. I would recommend ordering used over new again!🙏🦋🌹🦋🥰

I liked the variety of flowers represented in this book and normally I really like the spiral bound feature, however the pages were nearly impossible to open throughout a good portion of the book without tearing them. I had to very careful open page at a time taking care to gently coax them apart at the binding. Even with all the care that I took, several of them ripped rather than separate. This kind of defeats the joys of the spiral binding.

What a gem of a little book!!! I love that it is spiral-bound so that it lays flat for ease of use! Very beautifully illustrated and the explanations are so easy to follow! I absolutely recommend this great little book as well as the seller!!!

Realmente a Bíblia das flores em aquarela. O livro é lindo,em espiral explica detalhadamente as ilustrações apresentadas,a autora Claire Brown foi muito feliz na escolha da capa,do titulo do conteúdo,enfim,valeu muito a pena.Obrigada Amazon por me indicar esse maravilhoso livro e me entregar tão rápido e bem embalado.

Easy to follow step by step instructions how to paint different types of flowers in water colours. A handy book to take with you outdoors as it is rather small with pages that fall flat as it has ring binding. Hence the text is rather small as well. Generally speaking an informative book for you who likes to convey the beauty of flowers with the best results.

Hmm, this is a very basic book. It may be called a bible, but it is quite disappointing. The pictures are very little, the technique totally basic. I would not buy it again.

Thought I would try some watercolour painting, having been reasonably successful with oils. This helped me along the way immensely as the instructions and pictures, from start to finish, were easy to follow and allowed one to make nice pictures.