Painting Your Garden: The English Garden in Oils and Watercolours

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A garden offers a haven to be enjoyed and savoured; it also provides ample subjects for the artist. This beautiful book will help you to see your garden in a new light and to enjoy it in a new way. Using a step-by-step approach, it deals with the more intimate aspects of a garden as well as the broader views, and covers a range of approaches to painting in oils and watercolour. \"Painting your Garden\" is an inspiring book which marries the interests of artists and lovers of the English garden.

Topics covered include:
- Painting flowers, fruits and vegetables
- Adding figures, birds and animals
- Looking at garden details and scenes
- Capturing the seasons and water
Developing a looser approach

AUTHOR
Lesley E Hollands is a professional artist with work in private collections across the world. She has exhibited in galleries throughout England, including the Royal Academy, and has won many prizes for her paintings. She is also a teacher of long standing where her approachable and encouraging style has won her many followers.

SELLING POINTS
• An inspirational book which marries the interests of artists and lovers of the garden
• Aimed at beginners and the more experienced; untutored groups and individual artists
• Covers a range of approaches to painting in oils and watercolours
• Beautifully illustrated with 265 colour illustrations
• Lesley Hollands is a professional artist with work in private collections worldwide.
• An inspirational book which marries the interests of artists and lovers of the garden
• Aimed at beginners and the more experienced; untutored groups and individual artists
• Covers a range of approaches to painting in oils and watercolours
• Beautifully illustrated with 265 colour illustrations
• Lesley Hollands is a professional artist with work in private collections worldwide.
• Will feature in magazines from England but available in Australia: Leisure Painter, The Artist and Artists and Illustrators

ISBN: 9781847972279
Author: HOLLANDS LESLEY E.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/03/2011
RRP: $49.99
Pages: 160
Dimension: 280mm X 220mm
Imprint: Crowood Press