"Painted Botanical Collage: Transforming Mixed-Media Papers into Cut Paper Blooms" by Tracey English is a small, colorful and fun to-do visual arts books. It encourages you to look at the plants around - and see how you can turn what you see into an evening project. Its sole purpose is to give you step by step instructions to build 33 collages representing single flower arrangements. The detailed tutorials are proceeded by a section on preparing the materials, most importantly the papers from which you then make the collage elements. While it feels a little bit like painting by the numbers at first, I appreciated the art when I actually tried to make one of the projects myself. And the projects shown in detail in the book are just a beginning, an inspiration to get out and find your own ideas to execute.

"Painted Botanical Collage" is beautifully illustrated, full of color and interesting shapes and forms. It is a really fun gift book for somebody who wants to do some simple, but rewarding art projects. Even if just wants to browse through.

This is a fun book to guide you through a flower painting adventure. I like doing collage with painted papers. It gives the collage so much more personality than using commercial paper. Love it!

I enjoyed learning and creating art with the lessons in Painted Botanical Collage. The beautiful illustrations were inspiring and I will recommend it to the art teacher at my sons high school!

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This book is filled with attractive, eye catching, colorful illustrations. The ideas are clever and the explanations are easy to understand and follow. The stylized flower pictures would be easy for an artist, crafter, or quilter to use. This book would be great to have in your library if you are an artist or a gardener.

This book is a whole lot of fun!
It is just full of ideas and fun things to make using paint, blending colour, collage, and using flowers as an inspiration. Great book for children and adults alike, (and both together) to experience a bit of fun and create some pretty good pictures and even learn something about plants. I love the succulents, the orchid and especially the venus fly trap.

Vivid pictures and photography give this step by step guide to collage art for beginners looking to expand their craft a vibrant educational tool.. This book is excellent for amateurs just starting out by giving them the perfect starting point to begin the fun and creative art medium of collage art. This particular guide is very specific in how to use collage art to create vibrant and beautiful botanical art. It was easy to follow and fun to use as I explored whether or not this was an art medium that I might enjoy. Not being a fabulous artist, I enjoyed the ability to create something stunning with the easy to follow instructions.

I love mixed media so the projects and skills needed in this book are right up my street.
When making collages it can sometimes be hard to find something of the colour you want, the techniques here fix that perfectly.

A lot of great ideas on using different items to create collages.  If you are a beginner or just looking for new ideas this is a fun book.

I would never have thought to do a painted collage this way. Absolutely beautiful step-by-step guide to painting a botanical collage, this collection shows interesting techniques to creating a collage by painting each piece beforehand and then creating the flowers/plants. It outlines the different materials needed, too.

Let's develop our creativity, as I say often because it will help us to sorting out a lot of problems, living more happily, and because it is the expression of ourselves and our soul.
If you love to add joy, happiness to your life and if you love plants, flowers and their stunning and wonderful colors, go for this book: Painted Botanical Collage Create Flowers, Succulents, and Herbs from Cut Paper and Mixed Media by Tracey English. Published by Quarto at the beginning of October this one is a book of great inspiration if you are a creative, if you love nature and flowers. You will be immersed pretty soon in a wonderful, poetical colored, sunny world.
I start to tell you that the author is incredibly friendly and I encourage you of visiting her blog; she does her best for promoting in a loving way the arrival of her book sharing and taking care of what her fans are saying her. A long and detailed introduction will drive you step-by-step in this art, collage, that it is simply amazing.
I love it with all myself and in this book you will discover how to paint flowers and more using, close to materials in general commonly used for collage also other medias, so recycling, because everything is precious! in this world, and re-using also old magazines.
Realizations are simply wonderful. I wouldn't know where to start. You will be in grade thanks to this book of realize beautiful and stunning colored flowers, from tulips to romantic roses but also succulent plants, if you prefer them.

Beautiful.
Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley for this eBook.

This is a very bright and clear book for a beginner or intermediate painter. Would be a nice gift item for a Tween or Teen. I like the examples and the instructions that were clearly written.

Painted Botanical Collage is an incredibly detailed tutorial on using collages to create natural looking floral artworks. If I sound surprised there, it’s because I am. This book is relatively short, being less than fifty pages, but it covers so much in that short amount of time. It’s astonishing, really.
This instructional book covers everything from the materials and tools used all the way to how the artist (Tracey English) designed and created specific flowers. My favorite part, oddly enough, was in the middle of all this. English took the time to explain and show how she would create her own background papers – papers that she would then cut up and use in her collages. It is actually a brilliant idea, and one I would never have thought of on my own.
I love Tracey English’s bright and creative style for collages. Each piece had such personality and character to them all, while still absolutely looking like the flower or plant she intended on. I couldn’t think of a better instructor to have written this book.

I really enjoyed this book. Each project is explained in a way that is easy for a beginner to understand. I also liked that this book gave me a different view of what a collage is. I am excited to try this project!
The only improvement that I would suggest would be to include templates. I'm not great at free-hand so it would be helpful to me.
Overall, I would recommend the Painted Botanical Collage.

Not everyone can draw or paint well, but anyone can collage! English has put together a wonderful collection of simple tutorials on creating botanical collages using paper and easy painting techniques, making this artform approachable for anyone, from kids to adults. The end results are beautiful in their simplicity and would make lovely wall art, greeting cards or just a nice hobby to express one's creativity.

Thank you to Tracey English, Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this lovely book. All comments are my own, unbiased opinion.

This book is so interesting. It not only has how to paint different flowers and herbs. It also has them in added painted paper. The technique creates a beautiful finished product. I am not a painter but I am going to try this. Everything is well written with instructions, paint colors, materials and wonderfully vivid pictures. I really love the Lavender, Sunflower and Tiger Lily. This would be great for stationary, scrapbooking or just to hang on a wall. You could even use the little flowers for making your own cards.
I receieved this book in exchange for my honest opinion.