Drawing and Painting Animals

Description

Trudy Friend's innovative approach highlights common problems and simple solutions to create more effective drawings and paintings. Clearly annotated pictures and easy-to-follow technique demonstrations ensure that problems can be quickly corrected. The book covers a wide range of popular animals including farm animals, wild animals, birds, reptiles and insects. The techniques demonstrated throughout are applicable to watercolour, graphite pencil, charcoal, Conte, pastels, acrylic and gouache.

Table of contents

Introduction; Materials; Techniques; Mixing Colour * Textures * Line * Form * Tone * Heads and Features * Feet * Movement * Body Mass * Exercise in Accuracy * With an Artist's Eye; Theme 1: Domestic Pets; Dog * Cat * Rabbit * Guinea Pig * Mouse * Shetland Pony; Theme 2: Farm Animals; Cow * Pig * Goat * Sheep * Horse * Chicken * Duck; Theme 3: Zoo Animals; Elephant * Rhinoceros * Giraffe * Zebra; Theme 4: Wild Animals; Fox * Badger * Otter * Beaver * Grey Squirrel * Wolf * Deer * Bear; Theme 5: Birds, Reptiles and Insects; Eagle * Parrot * Penguin * Swan * Toad * Crocodile * Butterfly * Grasshopper; Index.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9780715322239
• Publisher : 44985
• Imprint : 44985
• Publication date : July 2006
• Dimensions : 279mm X 216mm X 11mm
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : 250 colour illustrations & 30 line illustrations
• Pages : 128
• Author : Trudy Friend