Floral Designs and Motifs for Artists, Needleworkers and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486247163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From the Back CoverFlowers are among nature's most beautiful creations, infinitely varied in form and texture, strikingly vivid in color. Now you can bring the freshness of a whole garden of exquisite flowers to your needlework and art projects with this versatile collection of original floral designs.Noted illustrator and fabric designer Charlene Tarbox brings sophisticated pen and ink techniques and design ingenuity to 136 floral motifs presented here for copyright-free use. A wide variety of plants and flowers are represented, spanning the se
A wide variety of plants and flowers are represented, spanning the seasons from early spring crocuses to autumn chrysanthemums. Now you can bring the freshness of a whole garden of exquisite flowers to your needlework and art projects with this versatile collection of original floral designs.Noted illustrator and fabric designer Charlene Tarbox brings sophisticated pen and ink techniques and design ingenuity to 136 floral motifs presented here for copyright-free use. You'll find popular flowers in a number of horticultural varieties, native wildflowers, houseplants, and shrubs.Included in the selection are the
Patricia said Nice!. This is a nice book of flowers and stem flowers for needlepoint. If you like to draw, the designs are easy to draw, paint, trace, transfer and print-up. I have a sitting corner and wanted simple framed flower prints in the colors to match my livingroom and to place in the corner over the chair. I enlarged some, painted them my desired colors and frame them. They are very nice enlarged and visitors keep asking me where did I purchase them. If you like crafting, this is a nice book to add to your collection.. Very Useful Book as a Guide for Painting and Drawing Flowers Great little renderings that I use as guides for my floral watercolor projects and mixed media projects. These are not that detailed so they are a perfect resource for my style of painting and drawing. The price was a pleasant surprise as well, since art supplies and resources generally run to the high end. I have only had this book a short while but turn to it frequently as a guide and for inspiration, more so than any other art resource book in my library (and I have many and they all cost more than this paperback book). There is no teaching in this book and no need for it since the drawin. Deborah Woehr said Great Quality Images, Yet Not Suitable for the Kindle Fire HDX 7.5". I purchased this book to get some inspiration for my designs and am very pleased by what I saw between the covers. There are a wide variety of flowers that I can experiment with. I also liked the two Christmas themed drawings I saw near the end of the book. The reason I'm giving a four-star rating is because the images come out too small on my Kindle screen, and I can't zoom in to make them larger. That said, I found an alternative when I found the Kindle Cloud Reader for my desktop. They come out much larger so you can see all of the details in the drawings. I recommend this book for both a