A pair of professional artists offers valuable suggestions for realistic portrayals of flowers, animals, and other natural subjects. Detailed, step-by-step demonstrations use watercolors, oils, pencil, and other media. Over 400 illustrations offer specific tips sure to improve the techniques of both experts and hobbyists.
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Animal Sketching by Alexander Calder Undisputed master of the simple expressive line. 141 full body sketches and enlarged details of animals in characteristic poses and movements. Calder covers cats, dogs, the elephant, birds, monkeys, and more.
Landscape Drawing Step by Step by Wendon Blake Excellent, clearly written how-to guide for training powers of observation, judging proportions, assessing values, plus valuable suggestions for use of drawing media. 180 line illustrations and halftones.
Watercolor Landscapes Step by Step by Wendon Blake Easy-to-follow guide, with 122 illustrations, including 60 in color, provides beginners with all the information they need to paint mountains, rocks, and mist, as well as how to apply color.
Painting Trees and Landscapes in Watercolor by Ted Kautzky Comprehensive advice on painting landscape components such as plant life, puddles, rain, and fog. Includes composition, value arrangement, balance, rhythm, pattern, and the structure of trees. 127 illustrations. 16 pages in full color.
Skies and the Artist: How to Draw Clouds and Sunsets by Eric Sloane Sloane's "talk on clouds" describes different types of "cloudscapes" and offers homespun techniques that help add texture and realism to cloud illustrations. 110 black-and-white illustrations.
Marine Painter's Guide by Jack Coggins Invaluable instruction from an expert on portraying everything from docks and fishing villages to ships and a rocky coastline. Useful tips on perspective and reflections are accompanied by diagrams and drawings. 127 black-and-white illustrations; 11 in full color.
Country Scenes to Paint or Color by Dot Barlowe Rustic vignettes in the tradition of Currier & Ives' famous prints offer 23 idyllic scenes of barns, meadows, covered bridges, and other landscapes of country life.
Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople by W. G. Paulson Townsend Useful reference covering several varieties of plants includes more than 100 precise drawings of flowers, leaves, buds, and growth patterns, along with detailed descriptions of physical features and general botanical information. 114 illustrations.
