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"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."--BOOK JACKET. "The "secret" is making the most of colored pencil's distinctive translucent properties with techniques such as layering, burnishing and underpainting....
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ART INSTRUCTION While writing an earlier book, Creating Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil (North Light, 1997), Greene couldn't find a suitable botanical book for an artist's reference source. The result is this book of more than 500 photos of nearly 50 types of flowers. For each flower, Greene provides a primary photo, side views, and closeups of petals, leaves, and other details. Captions on color variations and scale and five painting illustrations...