General & Miscellaneous Drawing Techniques

Creating Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil

Name: Creating Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil
Author: Gary Greene
ISBN: 9781581801729

by Gary Greene

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Overview

When it comes to choosing a subject, flowers are a perennial favorite for artists because of their exciting variety and complexity of color, texture and detail. It's amazing, then, that their vibrant natures can be captured so realistically with the simple and direct medium of colored pencil. The "secret" is making the most of colored pencil's distinctive translucent properties with techniques such as layering, burnishing and underpainting. Gary Greene - along with six other respected colored-pencil artists - shows you how in 64 illustrated, step-by-step demonstrations. Arranged alphabetically from azalea to zinnia for easy reference, these demonstrations detail the methods and specific colors for creating a variety of flowers.