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The Botanical Palette: Colour for the Botanical Painter

By: Society of Botanical Artists
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 0007247850
ISBN-13: 9780007247851
Released: 01 Oct 2007
RRP: £25.00
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Daphne Hicks Flower Power - By: Daphne Hicks, 19 Jun 2008
I consider this book to be a useful addition to my collection of Botanical painting books as I am taking the Botanical Society Diploma course & this is one of the study books for students. I found the pages devoted to mixing colours very informative but the actual examples of working with colours were a little dull & lacking that excitment factor I was hoping for. On the whole good but for me could have been better!
A book both deliate and substantial - By: Halloween Becky, 09 Nov 2007
I bought this book as a treat for myself & was instantly attracted to the delicate beauty of the cover illustration. I knew before opening it that with The Society of Botanical Artists behind it, this book was going to be more than your average 'How to Paint Pretty Flowers' title. I only class myself as an amateur botanical painter but feel that this is a book for alll levels. I appreciated the informative colour charts & the challlenging projects & I feel for certain my more advanced friends would love the advice on how to build-up colour in a painting & bringing luminosity & transparency to your flowers & foliage. In fact, I might buy one or two books as gifts this Christmas! This book is not over ambitious in its content; focussing on colour in such detail with such authority, I found it to be a great resource for exploring the complexities of botanical painting.
Disappointing - By: J. Rigby, 21 Oct 2007
I had been looking forward to this book but found it very disappointing. I had expected a comprehensive explanation of the use of colour in botanical painting in general but found it concentrated on only a few specimens which seemed to be arbitrarily chosen. Moreover, one of the flowers illustrated was a mecanopsis & the colour was so different from that of the actual flower that I felt thoroughly cheated. An explanation of the wider use of colour in flower painting would have been much more useful. I'm sorry but this is definitely a case of "could have done so much better". What a pity!