In this lovely book of flower paintings, Lola Ades invites you into her artistic world and shows you how to re-create an array of beautiful floral bouquets--from a simple grouping to more traditional, formal arrangements. Inside, she demonstrates her own method of developing a painting from start to finish, helping you discover how to use the oil medium to its fullest. You'll find a simple, step-by-step process for painting floral bouquets, and as you floow each demonstration from intial sketch to final touches, you'll not only discover a number of essential oil painting techniques but also ways of creating special effects in oil. 32 pages, paperback, from Walter Foster.