The Flowers Coloring Book

Hardback Gift Edition

Author: Peter Gray, J. Goffart, Alphonse Goossens and Pierre-Joseph Redouté Series: Hardback Vintage Coloring

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Step into a blooming flower garden with this delightful hardback coloring book, with illustrations based on the artwork of Pierre-Joseph Redoté and other classic botanical illustrators.

Budding artists can indulge their passion for flowers and improve their artistic skills with this exquisite coloring book. From the striking poppy to the delicate bluebell, it includes over 70 full-color flower illustrations by the very best botanical artists and lithographers such as Pierre-Joseph Redoté and Alphonse Goossens. These are presented for reference beside black and white outlines to color yourself and reproduce your own masterpieces. A glossary of flowers is also included so you can identify each species and find your favorites.

- Includes over 70 designs
- Printed on thick, high-quality paper
- Original full-color illustrations included for easy reference
- This hardback edition with patterned endpapers makes a wonderful gift.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Hardback Vintage Coloring series will transport you to a world of vintage charm and nostalgia. These delightful coloring books feature original, full-color illustrations by classic artists and designers along with black and white line versions for you to color in.

About the Author

Pierre-Joseph Redouté 1759-1840), was a Belgian painter and botanist from Belgium, renowned for his exquisite watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large, colored stipple engravings. He was sometimes known as 'the Raphael of flowers' and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.

Alphonse Goossens (1866-1944) was a Belgian natural history illustrator who is best remembered for his orchid illustrations in Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees.

Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world. He has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical subjects.