Archive for category Author: Christina Brodie
Design & Make Scarves, Collars, Ties & Belts || Christina Brodie
Posted by Henry in Author: Christina Brodie, Medium: Craft, Publisher: A&C Black, Series: Methods & Techniques, Subject: Fashion Design on Jun 9, 2009
This new series from Black’s has every appearance of being aimed at the competent amateur rather than the fashion design student and the production slots it in perfectly. The projects are sufficiently detailed that these are much more than just look-at books but sufficiently well and attractively illustrated that they capture the imagination and maintain the interest. If there’s a quibble, it’s that the stockists listed are all in London, but they all appear to have websites and a little time spent with Google or the Yellow Pages should throw up something in your area if you don’t want to go the mail order route.
Design & Make Fashion Bags & Purses || Christina Brodie
Posted by Henry in Author: Christina Brodie, Medium: Craft, Publisher: A&C Black, Series: Methods & Techniques, Subject: Fashion Design on Jun 9, 2009
This new series from Black’s has every appearance of being aimed at the competent amateur rather than the fashion design student and the production slots it in perfectly. The projects are sufficiently detailed that these are much more than just look-at books but sufficiently well and attractively illustrated that they capture the imagination and maintain the interest. If there’s a quibble, it’s that the stockists listed are all in London, but they all appear to have websites and a little time spent with Google or the Yellow Pages should throw up something in your area if you don’t want to go the mail order route.
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Drawing & Painting Plants || Christina Brodie
Posted by Henry in Author: Christina Brodie, Medium: Drawing, Medium: Watercolour, Publisher: A&C Black, Subject: Flowers on Oct 4, 2006
With the veritable rush of botanical illustration books that has appeared in the last couple of years, this makes a welcome change of focus.
Covering flowers, fruits, trees, leaves and fungi this also looks at all the smaller details that many other books tend to overlook. It’s also fair to say that it’s not something for the beginner – if you’re looking for an introduction to flower painting, this is not for you. Christina goes into a massive amount of detail – to the extent that there’s a section on how to use a stage micrometer – but this is the kind of thing you need to know and be prepared to do if you’re going to produce paintings of the kind of standard that will be used for botanical reference.
Like a lot of books that this publisher produces, this does not compromise or cut corners and it’s refreshing in an age when books are increasingly becoming commodities and being produced to a “near enough is good enough” formula that there is still someone out there who is prepared to take this trouble, to go the extra mile to produce books for the serious student. The price reflects this and £19.99 isn’t cheap for a paperback, although you do get 144 pages for your money rather than the more conventional 128, but it’s a product of the market refinement that the approach produces and it’s certainly worth it if this is what you need.
In line with the conventions of professional botanical illustration, the media used are mainly watercolour and the drawing media, with a little gouache thrown in as well. This is highly detailed, fine-brush work where absolute precision is a must.
A&C Black 2005
£19.99
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