Anyone can become a landscape artist by adding color to these rustic scenes. Idyllic vignettes in the tradition of Currier & Ives' famous prints offer 23 full-page drawings of barns, meadows, covered bridges, and other familiar sights of rural life, specially printed using light gray lines that virtually disappear with the addition of color. Dover Original.
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Illustrating Nature: How to Paint and Draw Plants and Animals by Dorothea Barlowe, Sy Barlowe 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.
Tropical Paradise Scenes to Paint or Color by Dot Barlowe Windswept beaches. Swaying palm trees. Gorgeous sunsets. Colorists and other artists can escape to exotic, faraway places with this collection of 23 breathtaking scenes. Perforated pages make it easy to remove each illustration.
Nautical Scenes to Paint or Color by Dot Barlowe 23 lovely scenes offer hours of artistic expression: masthead sloop, New England marina, grand luxury yacht, houseboat, canoe, clammer, rowboat, lighthouse, waterfront town, catamaran, harbor tugboat, mountain lake, and more.
Horse Scenes to Paint or Color by John Green Galloping steeds, working and show horses, wild ponies — 23 lifelike renderings show off the grace and power of this stable of equine beauties. Paint them, color them, or simply admire them!
America the Beautiful to Paint or Color by Dot Barlowe Twenty-three handsomely rendered drawings celebrate the beauty and majesty of America — from California's Big Sur country to Mount Desert Island off the rock-bound coast of Maine.
Butterflies and Flowers to Paint or Color by Ruth Soffer A tiger swallowtail, red admiral, coral hairstreak, and 20 other butterfly varieties nestled in flowers come vividly to life when colored with paints, pencils, or other media.
