These books look like coffee table books - and they are! But, for any artist who paints flowers and designers who love botanicals, these two books, particularly Mr. Marshall's can really give your creativity an added boost about flower painting.
Not since Georgia O'Keefe has there been a look into history that changed how a modern artist approached a blossom at the end of a stem. As Ms. O'Keefe's are dreamy and creamy with their painterly expressionism, Alexander Marshall will splash your tired flower painting face with cold water. Wake up!! He demands as crocuses open, then bloom and fade across the bottom of the page. You're wilting in the wind!! He tells you as striped tulips bend their heads and then open beyond their prime to practically fall apart at you. A must read and 5-stars for flower painters.
A Glimpse At Botanical Art
The Amazon Basin in 1956 was just beginning to burst with the stresses it faces today. Margaret Mee's depiction of the plants she devotedly studied and painted in 400 gouache botanicals, 40 sketchbooks, and 15 diaries exist as the call to preserve their existence. All politics aside, she painted from her wonder at what she saw on her exhibitions and in creating her books and paintings. This book is her first, and she has another, Return to the Amazon. It is a gorgeous coffee table art book, but it carries a message, as well, preservation.
Mr. Marshal's Flower Book - Alexander Marshall and the Royal Collection
Margaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist
Not since Georgia O'Keefe has there been a look into history that changed how a modern artist approached a blossom at the end of a stem. As Ms. O'Keefe's are dreamy and creamy with their painterly expressionism, Alexander Marshall will splash your tired flower painting face with cold water. Wake up!! He demands as crocuses open, then bloom and fade across the bottom of the page. You're wilting in the wind!! He tells you as striped tulips bend their heads and then open beyond their prime to practically fall apart at you. A must read and 5-stars for flower painters.A Glimpse At Botanical Art
The Amazon Basin in 1956 was just beginning to burst with the stresses it faces today. Margaret Mee's depiction of the plants she devotedly studied and painted in 400 gouache botanicals, 40 sketchbooks, and 15 diaries exist as the call to preserve their existence. All politics aside, she painted from her wonder at what she saw on her exhibitions and in creating her books and paintings. This book is her first, and she has another, Return to the Amazon. It is a gorgeous coffee table art book, but it carries a message, as well, preservation.
Mr. Marshal's Flower Book
- Alexander Marshall and the Royal CollectionMargaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: Diaries of an English Artist
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