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The Botanical Palette: Colour for the Botanical Painter | 
 enlarge | Author: Society Of Botanical Artists
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: £25.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 33682
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0007247850
EAN: 9780007247851
ASIN: 0007247850
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Daphne Hicks Flower Power June 19, 2008
I consider this book to be a useful addition to my collection of Botanical painting books as I am taking the Botanical Society Diploma course and this is one of the study books for students. I found the pages devoted to mixing colours very informative but the actual examples of working with colours were a little dull and lacking that excitment factor I was hoping for. On the whole good but for me could have been better!
 A book both deliate and substantial November 9, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a treat for myself and was instantly attracted to the delicate beauty of the cover illustration. I knew before opening it that with The Society of Botanical Artists behind it, this book was going to be more than your average 'How to Paint Pretty Flowers' title. I only class myself as an amateur botanical painter but feel that this is a book for all levels. I appreciated the informative colour charts and the challenging projects and I feel for certain my more advanced friends would love the advice on how to build-up colour in a painting and bringing luminosity and transparency to your flowers and foliage. In fact, I might buy one or two books as gifts this Christmas! This book is not over ambitious in its content; focussing on colour in such detail with such authority, I found it to be a great resource for exploring the complexities of botanical painting.
 Disappointing October 21, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had been looking forward to this book but found it very disappointing. I had expected a comprehensive explanation of the use of colour in botanical painting in general but found it concentrated on only a few specimens which seemed to be arbitrarily chosen. Moreover, one of the flowers illustrated was a mecanopsis and the colour was so different from that of the actual flower that I felt thoroughly cheated. An explanation of the wider use of colour in flower painting would have been much more useful. I'm sorry but this is definitely a case of "could have done so much better". What a pity!
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