Flower Color Guide Paperback – October 1, 2018

I LOVE this book- it's such a perfect resource for artists. I use it for color palette reference, photo-real research on flowers, plus the book is great for turning sideways and using as a reference for abstract composition (the flower stalks turn into beautiful lines for an abstract landscape). The photos are gorgeous, clear, perfectly lit, and the colors are true to life- there is no "tweaking" of saturation which is good when you are really trying to gauge the true-life color of a flower and so many resources and photo collections of flowers are really saturated.My only issue is that the book is TINY (5x7" a little bigger than a photograph/postcard)- I though it would be quite a bit bigger, but it's kind of like this little manual. It makes the book easier to carry and store and flip through, but I love looking at details of the flowers and really seeing the colors right where the stem meets the petals (there are some gorgeous colors happening in the tiniest details of plants...) and those details are hard to see at such a small size. I'd love a larger version of this book- even though it would be cumbersome and take up a lot of shelf and easel real-estate, it would be worth it for larger images of these beautiful flowers.

How not love this Flower Color Guide? This book is fantastic! very practical, small, but convenient. Have a cut of flowers sheets on the back, so cute, the image of each flower and the information about them. it's perfect! What I would like to have on this book, is for each color, a sheet with the color name on it. For example, on white flowers, at the front of it, a sheet with the name "white" and for the other colors flowers too. This is my humble opinion.

Love the book. Just wish it was a bigger format. I imagined and didn’t think to check the description. I am using it for art inspiration and it is hard for me to see the details in the flowers being so small. It is also hard to keep the pages open. This would be awesome on larger paper that I spiral bound. I think that would make it perfect!

This book is exactly what I needed since starting a career in floral design and needing a solid reference book. This book has it all: floral identification, colors available, seasons best for harvest, and personally best of all the way a flower is/can be used (face, filler, gesture, ect). Another wonderful thing for this book is when a costumer (most often a bride) would like a particular flower for an arrangement we can go through the book together to pick something out which makes its organization by color perfect in these situations. My only criticism is that the book is too small in height and length, it makes the perforated section almost useless for me. I thought it would be better to have the "flashcards" for customers to browse through as they wait or chat and coworkers to keep at their stations, but the book's size has the pictures too small for identification, nice for a color swatch but that's pretty much it. Don't get me wrong though, the rest of the book's pictures are wonderfully captured, well light, and detailed to help ANYONE find the perfect flowers for them! While this isn't the book to teach you how to design it's an excellent stepping stone for those that are interested in the world of cut flowers or simply enjoy looking at them!

Beautifully illustrated book. Perfect for reference photos and color palettes. I use it for my adult coloring books. Especially floral themed pages. Wish the photos were bigger.

This book was recommended by an artist to help me learn how to paint flowers. So glad I purchased it. I am a beginning painter and it really was useful in helping me create beautiful watercolor paintings.Loved being able to identify more flowers too! Well designed book. Loved it!

I love painting flowers in both watercolor and acrylics and I have found this book to be a great art reference. Each flower is beautifully photographed and artfully arranged on the page.

I like the amount of information it gives you for a little book.