More and more people are choosing gouache for their botanical paintings, and Simon Williams, a leading botanical painter, provides expert advice on everything from brush angles to color mixing to painting in situ. Each step-by-step demonstration explores a different technique, and the stunning projects include tulips, iris, roses, and a mixed-fruit study.
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47 reviews for Botanical Painting with Gouache: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Mabel –
An excellent book, superb artwork and clear easy to follow demonstrations with lots of helpful tips and advice. I can highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in botanical painting, gouache techniques or figurative painting in general.The demonstrations would also work well with other media such as acrylic. The author is a very talented artist and is clearly passionate about his subject matter. The chapter on the ant house plant is particularly fascinating. The artwork on the front of the book is particularly striking and in this case you definitely can judge the quality of this book by it’s cover.
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mukuge –
A super thorough instructional book, although on one or two occasion the author seemed to forget to follow up the information he’s promised to divulge in the previous paragraph.
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ta –
the painting quality was not professional
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alfie –
Very nice book
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Kabessa –
Poor content. Bad illustrations. I really don’t recommend.
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Kindle Customer, BUFFALO NY –
I found this an excellent guide for me, a beginner with both gouache and botanical illustration, but of intermediate experience with traditional watercolor (painting). The author is definitely talented enough to write a book on the subject; the book contains many, many of his works and they are exquisite. I learned a lot of things, such as the excellent reference for Fabriano Pittura paper and the basics to using gouache: I’ve been using it far to thick. I learned use more water, more layers and let each layer completely dry before adding more paint. I think the only negative to this book was that the author tried to demonstrate too wide a variety of plants. I’d have preferred less examples and more specific instructions and detail on the painting of certain plants. Nonetheless, it’s by far the best guide on botanical painting using gouache that I’ve found to date.
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Amazon Customer –
Too advanced for a beginning painter.
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Mabel –
The contents are good but the covers are moldy and book looks like second hand.
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Joan Ryan –
Great book for gouache specifically, and botanical art generally. The writer does online courses, too, I think 🙂
Mabel –
An excellent book, superb artwork and clear easy to follow demonstrations with lots of helpful tips and advice. I can highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in botanical painting, gouache techniques or figurative painting in general.The demonstrations would also work well with other media such as acrylic. The author is a very talented artist and is clearly passionate about his subject matter. The chapter on the ant house plant is particularly fascinating. The artwork on the front of the book is particularly striking and in this case you definitely can judge the quality of this book by it’s cover.
mukuge –
A super thorough instructional book, although on one or two occasion the author seemed to forget to follow up the information he’s promised to divulge in the previous paragraph.
ta –
the painting quality was not professional
alfie –
Very nice book
Kabessa –
Poor content. Bad illustrations.
I really don’t recommend.
Kindle Customer, BUFFALO NY –
I found this an excellent guide for me, a beginner with both gouache and botanical illustration, but of intermediate experience with traditional watercolor (painting).
The author is definitely talented enough to write a book on the subject; the book contains many, many of his works and they are exquisite. I learned a lot of things, such as the excellent reference for Fabriano Pittura paper and the basics to using gouache: I’ve been using it far to thick. I learned use more water, more layers and let each layer completely dry before adding more paint.
I think the only negative to this book was that the author tried to demonstrate too wide a variety of plants. I’d have preferred less examples and more specific instructions and detail on the painting of certain plants. Nonetheless, it’s by far the best guide on botanical painting using gouache that I’ve found to date.
Amazon Customer –
Too advanced for a beginning painter.
Mabel –
The contents are good but the covers are moldy and book looks like second hand.
Joan Ryan –
Great book for gouache specifically, and botanical art generally. The writer does online courses, too, I think 🙂
D.S.PLUMBLEY –
Excellent material. Easy to follow.