Presents step-by-step instructions for painting pictures of small animals, including rabbits and hares, squirrels, prairie dogs, foxes, raccoons, woodchucks, otters, ferrets, and small rodents.

Create paintings so vivid you can practically feel the thick fur of the timber wolf, sense the wing-beats of the red-tailed hawk, see the small-mouth bass prowl the rocky shallows. Clear away the mystery of painting mammals, birds and fish with Patrick Seslar and thirteen other well-known wildlife artists. Follow them as they lead you in new approaches to learning about animals, their habitats and how to capture them in oils, watercolors, acrylics or pastels. Step-by-step demonstrations show you how to paint fur, feathers and scales, and how to capture characteristic gestures and poses.

This book offers tips on how to accurately capture the anatomy, colors and textures of specific animals, along with insight on how to study and photograph them, recommendations on the best art tools and materials to use, and guidance through the entire painting process.

A group of internationally acclaimed wildlife painters share their ideas and insights. Included in this illustrated book are the works and teachings of Robert Bateman, Allen Blagden, Ken Carlson, Raymond Ching, Guy Coheleach, Don R. Eckelberry, Lars Jonsson, Bob Kuhn, Roger Tory Peterson, Thomas Quinn, and John Serrey-Lester. Wildlife Painting features sections on solving such painting problems as how to achieve a feeling of depth in fur, or detail in plumage; how to convey action; how to paint effective camouflage; and how to capture the essence of grasses or trees or reflection in water. With styles ranging from realism to impressionism. Wildlife Painting includes finished works in oil, watercolour, acrylic, tempera, gouache, colored pencil, pastel and mixed media. Also included are sketches, studies, step-by-step demonstrations, and tips from the artists on animal behaviour.

Showing how to depict some of nature's most dazzling creatures, this book's careful demonstrations simplify the process of painting and drawing wildlife. Instruction is geared to working with pencil, oil, and watercolor, utilizing the particular properties of each medium to portray hair, fur, and feathers, and more. 150 color and 50 b&w illustrations.

The top wildlife artist shares his award-winning techniques for capturing the look and feel of wild animals.

Capturing the Essence is a step-by-step personal guide – by one of Australia's greatest living bird artists – to observing, retaining the essential information and then painting birds from field notes and sketches, photographs and other field observations. The author takes the reader through the processes involved in oil painting, watercolour and acrylic techniques, and a piece of art is built up in stages to demonstrate the skills required in each of these media. While the book covers some of the general basics relevant to various kinds of painting of natural history subjects, the concentration is very much on birds. Painting or drawing any subject well, gives great satisfaction. In this book the author hopes to help the reader become competent at drawing and painting birds, or at least to enjoy trying!

Capture the powerful essence of deer, elk, antelope, moose and more. Cynthie Fisher helps you gain the knowledge and master the skills needed to portray these striking animals with straightforward instruction drawn from her years of wildlife painting experience and zoological training. Book jacket.

Woodburning Realistic Animals shows how to create amazingly lifelike portraits of domestic animals and wildlife with 12 step-by-step projects plus skill-building tutorials for creating realistic eyes, short fur, long fur, manes, and whiskers.