The Fine Art of Paper Flowers: A Guide to Making Beautiful and Lifelike Botanicals (Hardcover)

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An inspiring, practical and gorgeous guide to crafting the nearly realistic and artful paper flowers for arrangements, art, décor, wearables and more, from San Francisco botanical artist Tiffanie Turner.

The Fine Fine art of Paper Flowers is an elevated fine art and craft guide that features complete step-by-footstep instructions for over xxx of Tiffanie Turner'southward widely admired, unique, lifelike newspaper flowers and their foliage, from bougainvillea to English roses to zinnias. In the book, Turner also guides readers through making her signature giant paper peony, shares all of her secrets for special paper treatments, processed-striping, playing with colour and creating botanical imperfections, and shows how to turn paper flowers into gorgeous garlands, headdresses, bouquets and more than. These stunning creations can be fabricated from unproblematic and inexpensive materials and the book's detailed tutorials and cute photography brand it easy to achieve dramatic and lifelike results.

TIFFANIE TURNER is a licensed California architect, fine artist and teacher in the art of paper flower making in the United States and worldwide. Her work explores nature and botanical specimens in extremely big and sometimes very small scales, in paper. Her work has been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Surface area's Bedford Gallery, Jack Fischer Gallery, the San Jose Institute of Gimmicky Art, and at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, where she was the artist-in-residence. Tiffanie has appeared in Faddy, American Craft, the San Francisco Chronicle, and O Magazine and has been featured online on Design*Sponge, The Jealous Curator, and Poppytalk, among others. Raised in the woods of New Hampshire, Tiffanie now resides with her husband and two children in San Francisco, California, where she has lived for the by twenty years.

Product Details ISBN: 9780399578373
ISBN-10: 0399578374
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Publication Date: Baronial 22nd, 2017
Pages: 264
Language: English

"Tiffanie Turner'southward creations are exquisite. Her D.I.Y. instructions for handmade marigolds, roses, dianthus and daffodils are meticulous."

—New York Times

"Under the mantra 'Yous must make what you meet, not what you think you lot see,' this book guides artisans to astonishing results."
Publishers Weekly

"The start time I saw Tiffanie Turner's work, I was speechless. In her skilled hands, crepe paper, wire, and gum became tiny (and sometimes wonderfully larger-than-life) works of floral art, beautiful enough to anchor the grandest of dining tables. While Tiffanie'southward flowers hang in museums and galleries, her book makes this intriguing art grade attainable to even the nearly novice of crafters. I can't await to dive into this beautifully photographed book and its rich collection of inspiring projects."
—GRACE BONNEY, founder of Design*Sponge and writer of In the Company of Women

"Tiffanie and I were introduced decades ago at the San Francisco Flower Marketplace, when I was a floral designer and she was an artist buying blooms to paint. Flowers are still her muse, simply now she'south immortalizing them in a different medium. In an historic period when everything is fast paced and fleeting, it'southward invaluable to create and share lasting beauty—and that's exactly what Tiffanie does in this book."
—KATE BERRY, way director of Domino magazine

"This is a true labor of love from a truly passionate artist. Not only is Tiffanie's attention to particular awe-inspiring, but and so is her generosity of information! This gorgeous book is basically like getting the key to a treasure box filled with years of Tiffanie'south self-taught knowledge, bright tips and tricks, and, of class, more paper flowers than you can fifty-fifty begin to imagine."
—DANIELLE KRYSA, founder of The Jealous Curator and author of Your Inner Critic Is a Large Wiggle

"The first time I saw Tiffanie Turner's scenic creations I did a double accept. 'Paper? Impossible!' And yet sure enough, they are. And as such, they are utterly spectacular. The Art of Paper Flowers is an in-depth instructional book for us mortals—super detailed with everything you need to know to effort your mitt at paper flower cosmos."
—ARIELLA CHEZAR, author of The Flower Workshop

"Tiffanie Turner'southward thoughtful approach to creating stunning, botanically accurate
flowers is both inspiring and encouraging, opening our eyes to new ideas to
create something of our own. From 'very like shooting fish in a barrel' to 'not very hard,' her unique
techniques take away the fear, making us desire to pick up some crepe newspaper and
make some flowers for our side by side political party!"
—JAN HALVARSON and EARL EINARSON, founders of Poppytalk.com

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