This highly inspirational yet practical guide to flower painting provides a unique opportunity to discover the approaches and techniques used by acclaimed artist Julie Collins in her strikingly beautiful, contemporary work. Julie guides the reader through the materials she uses as well as her color mixing and compositional techniques, giving a unique insight into the workings behind her creative process. She then explores in detail the techniques she uses to put her ideas down on paper with such success--clear explanation is accompanied throughout by step demonstrations, exercises and a stunning collection of finished artworks. She then moves on to explore advanced techniques such as painting abstracts and white flowers, as well as a rare insight into vellum work and the incredible levels of detail this can produce.

Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolor

Arts & Photography

Collins, Julie

Painting

David&Charles

"This one-stop color-mixing reference for artists of all abilities covers mixes for the five key media:
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<li>Watercolor</li>
<li>Oils</li>
<li>Gouache</li>
<li>Acrylics</li>
<li>Ink</li>
</ul>
An indispensable visual directory of over 8,000 appropriate mixes for practicing artists, it includes an essential introduction to color and color mixing, as well as information on the best materials to use. Find answers to all your color mixing problems in this comprehensive, easy-to-use, pocket-sized volume."

Color Mixing Handbook

History & Criticism

Identical twins Miki and Julie Collins lead a subsistence life in a remote area north of the Alaska Range in Alaska?s wild interior. This dual autobiography of adventure shines with their love of the wilderness and of the sled dogs that are their loyal companions

Trapline Twins

Biographies & Memoirs

Collins, Miki

Community & Culture

Alaska Northwest Books

Dog Driver gives you practical details of preparing a team for serious work. Learn how to: select your dogs, build a team, train and condition, work with harnesses and sleds (AND how to repair them!), understand your dogs, and travel safely and efficiently. Not only will you learn all the fine points of mushing but you will really enjoy reading this book.

Dog Driver: A Guide for the Serious Musher

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Alpine Pubns Inc

Identical twins Miki and Julie Collins lead a subsistence life in a remote area north of the Alaska Range in Alaska’s wild interior. This dual autobiography of adventure shines with their love of the wilderness and of the sled dogs that are their loyal companions

Alaska Vanessa Press

Identical twins Miki and Julie Collins trap, hunt, fish, and garden in Alaska's wilderness just north of Denali National Park in Alaska's vast interior. Their closest companions are loyal sled dogs and Icelandic horses, which eat fish and can withstand northern extremes. Whether taking a 1,900-mile excursion around Alaska by dog sled, defending their huskies from a charging grizzly, or dealing with a panicked horse in an airborne plane, the Collins sisters offer a new perspective on life in the northland. Theirs is an unusual lifestyle even by Alaska standards.

Riding the Wild Side of Denali: Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies

Epicenter Press, Incorporated

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between health and place through the emergence of dedicated therapeutic building types from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, a time when the environment was viewed as integral to the health of both the individual and the population. This book provides an overview of ideas surrounding health and place and their impact on architecture and designed landscapes. Different therapeutic buildings and places are examined, including public parks, asylums, sanatoria, leprosaria, quarantine stations, public baths and healthy homes. Each chapter outlines the medical context, common therapies, a history of buildings designed in response to these, and an examination of how such places were perceived to have functioned. Illustrated using geographically and temporally diverse examples, the book includes designs drawn from locations across the world including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. The Architecture and Landscape of Health identifies and examines moments in the conversation between health and design, and is a timely look back on the resultant buildings and places, offering insights which could inform the design of therapeutic places of the future. An ideal read for researchers, academics and upper-level postgraduate students interested in architecture, and architectural history, particularly relating to healthcare design and medical history.

The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940 (Routledge Research in Architectural History)

Routledge

Create your own beautiful floral table arrangements with expert advice from this team of master florists, brimming with professional expertise and the desire to share it. Featuring over 35 designs in a wide variety of styles, each flower arrangement is beautifully photographed to provide maximum inspiration for your floral designs. Step-by-step guidance on how to create each flower arrangement is given, with tips and techniques for working with silk flowers as well as fresh cut flowers. A helpful techniques section explains all the essential concepts of flower arranging, including soaking foam (oasis), selecting flowers, handling and conditioning flowers, advice on using containers and advice on the best flower arranging tools.
The projects in the book are presented in three skill levels so you can start at Level 1 with simple table centrepieces and work up through Levels 2 and 3 to create more ambitious floral designs. There are flower arrangements to suit many different occasions including weddings, Christmas, vintage tea parties, mother’s day, birthdays, family get-togethers, dinner parties and more, in a diverse range of themes and styles including pretty, clean, contemporary, bold, romantic, bright, zen, warm, sculptural and rustic. This book is a fantastic introduction to creating contemporary and beautiful flower arrangements at home, suitable for beginners needing step-by-step guidance and more experienced flower arrangers looking for some fresh ideas and inspiration.

Chic & Unique Flower Arrangements: Over 35 modern designs for simple floral table decorations

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Parkes, Tina

Crafts & Hobbies

A practical and inspirational manual that shows you a huge range of color mixes in watercolor. The aim of the book is to encourage you to get to know colors well and be motivated to explore and experiment with color. Use the book as a handy reference when you want to know how to mix a specific color, or as a catalog of inspiration when seeking ideas to try in your work. The handy color viewing card included can be used to view each color swatch in isolation. This will help sharpen your perception of the color or allow you to pinpoint a specific shade to use in your own work.

3000 Color Mixing Recipes: Watercolor: The ultimate practical reference to watercolor mixes and dilutions

Graphic Design

Both practical and inspiring, Stenciling for the Home offers ideas for every room in the house. With handy stencils and tips on planning your designs, you'll be ready to apply your new skills to a wealth of projects from enhancing plain tiles in the bathroom or kitchen to adding a border accent to a floor. Bring color to a tablecloth, a pot or an exterior wall -- these are just a sample of this book's many stenciling projects to enliven your home.

Stenciling for the Home

Philo, Maggie

Hall, Katrina

Thunder Bay Pr

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Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolor

Color Mixing Handbook

Trapline Twins

Dog Driver: A Guide for the Serious Musher

Trapline Twins

Riding the Wild Side of Denali: Alaska Adventures with Horses and Huskies

The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940 (Routledge Research in Architectural History)

Chic & Unique Flower Arrangements: Over 35 modern designs for simple floral table decorations

3000 Color Mixing Recipes: Watercolor: The ultimate practical reference to watercolor mixes and dilutions

Stenciling for the Home