Drawing And Painting Animals: The Essential Guide - Brossura

North Light Books, Jeff

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1600611109 ISBN 13: 9781600611100

Casa editrice: North Light Fine Art Editorial Staff, 2008

Riassunto

Favorite techniques from today's best animal artists!

In this "best of the best" guide, ten best-selling artists share their favorite tips for rendering wildlife, beloved pets and farmyard animals. More than 30 step-by-step demonstrations provide key lessons that make painting these subjects less intimidating and more fun.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• capture realistic fur and feather textures, expressions and the many distinguishing details that make your paintings lifelike.
• work with a variety of media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and pastel.
• paint a variety of animalsdogs, cats, rabbits, sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, llamas, deer, elephants, birds and more.

This ultimate reference is illustrated with stunning paintings in a range of styles, from acrylic ultra-realism to intuitive watercolor. Whether you find inspiration curled up next to you on the couch or deep in the wilds of Africa, this guide holds the secrets to capturing the character, grace and beauty of the animal kingdom.

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L'autore

Jeffrey Blocksidge is an editor with North Light Books whose background includes photography, life drawing and mixed-media collage.

Product Description

In this "Best of the Best" guide, ten popular artists, including Claudia Nice and Lian Quan Zhen share their favourite tips for painting wildlife.

This beautiful book illustrates some stunning paintings in either pastel, acrylic, coloured pencil, watercolour and charcoal, including some wonderful subjects such as pets, farmyard animals and large mammals, to name but a few. It is a must have if you would like to capture realistic fur, feather textures, expressions and the many distinguishing details that make your paintings lifelike.

There are over 30 step-by-step demonstrations providing key lessons that make painting these subjects less intimidating and much more fun and the book also covers materials, mediums and just some of the basics, including composition, colour and much more.

Whether you find inspiration curled up next to you on the couch or deep in the wilds of Africa then this is the guide for you!

Northlight - Paperback - 192 pages - Colour Throughout

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: North Light Fine Art Editorial Staff
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1600611109
• ISBN 13: 9781600611100
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 192