Arleta Pech's depth of color is remarkable for watercolor.

Painting Fresh florals in watercolor
Arleta Pech 
Hardcover - 128 pages 1 edition (July 1998) 
                     North Light Books; ISBN: 089134814X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 11.35 x 9.02 
Easy-to-master artistic secrets for capturing the beauty of flowers in vibrant watercolor renderings. For more than 25 years, Arleta Pech has been dazzling the art world with her strikingly realistic watercolor compositions. Now artists can learn to utilize her trademark techniques by following this guide's complete demonstrations for painting irises, magnolias, roses, peonies, apple blossoms, tulips - even delicate china and lacework. Starting with the basics, beginners can learn to successfully render transparent petals, luminous colors and a variety of delicate floral shapes and glazing techniques for building depth of color.  Her work was discovered by Mill Pond Press in 1989 and since that time she has traveled widely for gallery shows, tours, print signings and research trips.