THE ACRYLIC FLOWER PAINTER'S A-Z
Lexi Sundell

Acrylics offer many advantages for the artist. Effectively the modern inheritor of gouache, it is an opaque medium that is as much at home in a thin wash as it is in a heavy impasto and its quick drying properties allow paintings to completed much more quickly than with other, more traditional methods. Modern formulations have ironed out most of the problems that were originally associated with it and it can now reasonably be said to be fully house-trained.

This guide to flower painting in acrylics follows an established format and provides details of how to portray 40 popular floral subjects from Alcea to Zinnia. Some, as ever with books of this type, will be more familiar than others, but all the general types, colours and shapes are covered and you should have little trouble finding a pattern that you can adapt if the precise bloom you want is missing. Each demonstration covers a single spread and includes the finished painting, a series of detail illustrations, the palette used and the painting sequence. It's easy to follow, you don't have to do a lot of cross-referring and both the beginner and the more experience painter should feel at home.

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