Author: Anne-Marie Boisvert
Title: Anne-Marie’s Studio,Volume
I
Publisher/Date : Les éditions Diffuzart,
2002, Quebec, Canada
Language: Bilingual: French and English
Level: Beginner-Intermediate
Nº. of Pages: 37
ISBN : 2-980 7660-0-3, 2-980
7660-1-1
Anne-Marie’s Studio, Volume I -- More Than
a Project Book |
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If you like painting daisies, sunflowers, fruits
and ducks, Anne-Marie’s Studio, Volume I
will surely satisfy your creative urges. Having
published more than 85 pattern packets, Anne-Marie
Boisvert has finally decided on writing a book
aimed at the decorative painter who wants more
than just patterns. Backed by a fine arts background
and 12 years of experience in teaching visual
arts, Anne-Marie Boisvert offers four attractive
projects packaged with a wealth of information
on tools and supplies, surface preparation and
finishing, painting techniques, and brush uses.
The color palette, the required paintbrushes,
and the step-by-step painting instructions for
each of these projects are not only printed, but
also illustrated with color photographs. This
book, with its 37 pages of full-blown color, is
a must have item for the visual learner or any
painter wishing to experience the unique style
of this well-known French Canadian artist. |
The folk art flowers on a bentwood box in the first
project are painted with comma strokes and a round brush.
A simple faux finish is introduced as well as an easy
border painted with a liner brush and cotton swabs.
The next project, done on a notepad holder, is destined
for fruit lovers. A yellow pear, a red apple and strawberry,
a purple plum, and a couple of blueberries are painted
on a checkered background, using doubleloading and spattering
techniques. A dragonfly and a family of five ducks sitting
on a log among reeds, make up the third project. The
decorative painter will enjoy painting this little family
using a dagger brush and a comb brush and using techniques
such as drybrushing. Painted on all four sides of a
tissue box, a field of wild sunflowers under a country
blue sky complete this set of four. With its delightful
projects, helpful information, and colorful graphics,
this book is sure to please.
    
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