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Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration: An artist's guide to drawing and illustrating realistic flora, fauna, and botanical scenes from nature
by Mindy Lighthipe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition★★★★★
★★★★★
4.6|331 ratings
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Customers find this book to be an excellent guide for both beginners and advanced artists, with beautiful artwork and detailed illustrations. They appreciate the thorough coverage of botanical and bird illustration techniques, and one customer notes how it takes readers step-by-step through the process. The book receives positive feedback for its color theory content, with one customer highlighting the color chart and mixing charts.
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Draw and paint beautiful, vibrant, and realistic birds and botanicals with The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration. Take a sketch and transform it into fine art!The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration is a guide for contemporary artists aspiring to master shape, color, and texture and render beautiful, realistic, and vibrant botanical artwork. Author Mindy Lighthipe, an expert botanical artist, educates you about the tools and materials traditionally used in botanical illustration, including pencils, colored pencils, watercolor, gouache, and pastels. This thorough yet easily digestible guide includes overviews of key illustration techniques and basic color theory and mixing, and it's loaded with exercises designed to help you learn to see shape, value, and form. By learning tounderstand plant life and anatomy, you can craft elegant flowers, leaves, trees, and much more in no time! To bring it all together, The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration includes step-by-step demonstrations to follow along with as you practice taking sketches and transforming them into fully rendered, colorful pieces of fine art. Read more
Product Information
ASIN | B0778MBNDQ |
Publisher | Walter Foster Publishing |
Accessibility | Learn more |
Publication date | October 31, 2017 |
Language | English |
File size | 37.2 MB |
Screen Reader | Supported |
Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
X-Ray | Not Enabled |
Word Wise | Not Enabled |
Print length | 144 pages |
ISBN-13 | 978-1633225749 |
Page Flip | Enabled |
Best Sellers Rank | #205,600 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #35 in Pastel Drawing #43 in Plant & Animal Art (Kindle Store) #52 in Painting (Kindle Store) |
Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 331 ratings |