Painting Garden Animals

Painting Garden Animals

Sherry C. Nelson is known for her innovative and creative methods for painting animals in oils and acrylics. In Painting Garden Animals with Sherry C. Nelson, decorative painters now have a chance to learn these techniques through detailed step-by-step instruction. 10 projects feature those cuddly animals we know and love - a curious kitten, a fluffy yellow chick, a playful squirrel - all placed in colourful garden settings. Plus, readers can paint wilder animals, including a fawn and wolf cub. Decorative painters will master each part of the animal, including its eyes, noses, ears and paws, as well as its realistic fur with distinctive colour, markings, and length. Decorative painter Nelson follows Painting Garden Birds (1998) and Painting Flowers A to Z (2000) with a guide to painting familiar feathered and furry friends in garden settings. Nelson starts with the basics of materials, design transfer, setting up and using the palette, and loading the brush. She then progresses to more particular concerns, including "the essentials about animal fur," offering detailed instructions for creating more realistic renderings by varying the lengths of hair in different parts of the body; maintaining consistent value patterns while creating areas of shadow and light that reflect the body contours; painting in layers, beginning with the dark undercoat followed by the overcoat of lighter values; and, finally, the finest and lightest guard hairs. She even details painting coat types with step-by-step instructions for different fur types, from long and loose to short and straight. With 10 step-by-step projects featuring animals such as fawns, flop-eared bunnies, chipmunks, and bear cubs, this title will likely see brisk demand from crafters and painters alike. Whitney Scott Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Used Book in Good Condition