Painting Garden Animals

Paint endearing garden animals with realistic details that glow with life! Sherry C. Nelson shows you easy painting techniques that bring liveliness and personality to a variety of adorable garden animals and your favorite household pets. Through clear, step-by-step demonstrations and full-color reference photos, you'll learn how to paint the distinctive features of each animal and how to achieve realistic-looking fur. Each project is designed in a lovely setting with garden flowers, insects and other natural features. Inside, you'll find ten gorgeous projects, including: • Lop-eared Rabbit and Pansies • Kitten and Baby Chick • Whitetail Fawn and Chipmunk • Puppy and the Gosling The techniques demonstrated in each project, along with color charts and supply lists, will help you capture each adorable detail of your favorite garden friends. With Sherry C. Nelson as your guide, you'll find satisfying and successful results!

How to paint animals guide.

What better medium could there be than gouache to make highly detailed illustrations of our garden partners? Gouache, an opaque watercolor, can be layered and blended to make realistic paintings of animals and flowers, getting down to every last little bit of fur, sparkle in the eye or softness of a petal. This workbook explains the techniques used by showing them in step by step, easy to follow demonstrations. If you're just starting out in your art career or you're an experienced artist who wants to expand your knowledge about painting with gouache, this workbook is for you. So get out your paint and paper and enjoy!

How to paint animals guide.

Provides instructions for painting a variety of animals using pastels, acrylics, and oil paints.

Practical guide makes it easier for beginners as well as advanced artists to paint everything from dogs, cats, and deer to birds, sheep, and goats. 236 black-and-white illustrations, 26 in color.

Paint sweet scenes with cuddly baby animals! These precious animals are ready to play! Create your own warm moments of wonder as you paint charming baby animals exploring the world around them. Ten complete step-by-step demonstrations show you how to paint adorable country animals, including little lambs, playful piglets, sleepy chicks, mischievous ducklings, a friendly foal and their loving, watchful mothers. Eighteen mini-demos help you capture the details of the animals' surroundings, from peaceful farmyards and pastures to mountain meadows and flower-filled paths. The detailed instructions are easy for painters of any experience level to follow and a step-by-step fur and feather chart helps you accurately render the details on your favorite animals. Traceable patterns, complete materials lists and color mixing instructions help make each project foolproof and fun. Painting animals has never been more delightful and sweet!