Wildlife Landscapes You Can Paint

Capture the beauty and serenity of animals in nature If you love nature and life's simpler things, you'll love painting with Wilson Bickford. In this book, with a teaching style as easy and inviting as his paintings, Wilson guides you step by step through ten charming wildlife scenes on canvas. • Projects feature a variety of beloved animals including deer, black bears, blue herons, loons, ducks, swans and woodpeckers • Learn to paint a range of breathtaking settings - sparkling lakes, majestic mountains, forest retreats and even atmospheric effects like hazy sunsets, snow-laden pines and rippling water. • Includes mini-demonstrations that focus on key landscape elements such as trees, rocks, water and clouds. • Each project includes color swatches showing which mix is used where and easy-to-follow directions. Simpler is always better when you're just starting out. These projects require minimal equipment, only five colors and absolutely no previous experience. Wilson loves to paint them - and with his friendly, straightforward approach, you will, too!

Join David in our first ever wildlife landscape painting book. This book is presented in our "Art of Painting" format where we teach you more about being an artist. How to draw, sketch and capture the elements in the painting and render them correctly for color and shape. David has painted these beautiful paintings wildlife paintings for many years, but normally does them for commission and not for teaching purposes. Now, we will step inside the studio and take a close look at the techniques he uses to quickly capture some of his unique looks.Warm grisaille is a technique he will show you on 3 of the paintings in this book. This new technique allows you to quickly set the depth to the painting. David will show you how to warm the colors we have in our Grisaille Kit, to quickly add the colors and interest to the mountains and water. Then, learn how to use some unique palette knife techniques and a few fun large brushes to paint the rocks, trees and grassland. All the techniques are designed to create the atmosphere and artistic perspective that make these wildlife paintings collector's items. Join us in this 4, large painting lesson journey. Learn clouds, mountains, water, grass and trees. Learn how to "see" the objects and render them quickly and effectively keeping the overall goals of the painting in line.As an artist, David always says, if you want to paint roses, then learn how to paint clouds and water. Paint the sea. Being an artist is about learning to see. Once you can see how to render an object of nature, you can paint anything. Come join us on this artistic journey, The Art of Painting.For supplies, please visit us at JansenArtStore.comColors: Grisaille KitYellow OxidePine GreenPhthalo BlueNaphthol Red LightRed VioletHansa YellowBurnt Sienna Brushes: Various Sizes Fusion Flats Size- 2, 4, 6, 8Watercolor Fusion Round # 43/4 inch Watercolor FlatBristle Filbert Size 1, 41 inch bristle Flat# 5 Liquitex Palette Knife

Acrylic secrets to bring your nature paintings to life! Bring landscapes to life with popular workshop instructor, best-selling author and television personality Jerry Yarnell! Jerry has made painting a pleasure--and a success--for thousands of artists, both beginner and experienced alike. In this book, he delivers eight new, fun-to-create wildlife scenes in his signature teaching style. Following Yarnell's clear and friendly instructions, readers will learn how to pant a variety of animals, landscapes and seasons--from horses in a spring pasture, to tropical ocean sunsets, to winter birds nestled amid snow-laden pines. These heartfelt paintings capture not only nature's awesome beauty, but also a feeling of peace and well-being. Yarnell helps readers channel that same sense of ease by guiding them confidently every step and stroke of the way. These are the kinds of paintings--and the kind of teacher--that will keep artists smiling from start to finish. • 8 easy-to-follow, start-to-finish painting projects • Instructions for painting rivers, waterfalls, trees, deserts, flowers, nightscapes and more • How to bring scenes to life with elk, rabbits, owls and other animal subjects • Expert tips, tricks and tools for better results and more enjoyable painting

These pages practically glow with Kevin Macpherson's rich and powerful paintings! He shares his techniques for quickly capturing the mood of a scene in bold, direct brushstrokes, with step-by-step instructions that make it easy—simply a matter of painting the colors you see. Follow his lead and you too, can create landscapes and still lives in a vibrant, impressionistic style.

Acrylic secrets to bring your nature paintings to life! Bring landscapes to life with popular workshop instructor, best-selling author and television personality Jerry Yarnell! Jerry has made painting a pleasure--and a success--for thousands of artists, both beginner and experienced alike. In this book, he delivers eight new, fun-to-create wildlife scenes in his signature teaching style. Following Yarnell's clear and friendly instructions, readers will learn how to pant a variety of animals, landscapes and seasons--from horses in a spring pasture, to tropical ocean sunsets, to winter birds nestled amid snow-laden pines. These heartfelt paintings capture not only nature's awesome beauty, but also a feeling of peace and well-being. Yarnell helps readers channel that same sense of ease by guiding them confidently every step and stroke of the way. These are the kinds of paintings--and the kind of teacher--that will keep artists smiling from start to finish. • 8 easy-to-follow, start-to-finish painting projects • Instructions for painting rivers, waterfalls, trees, deserts, flowers, nightscapes and more • How to bring scenes to life with elk, rabbits, owls and other animal subjects • Expert tips, tricks and tools for better results and more enjoyable painting

Legends of the Hunt: Campfire Tales, the much-anticipated sequel to John Seerey-Lester's 2009 Legends of the Hunt, features more than 130 paintings by the artist and some sixty exciting stories covering the remarkable true-life adventures of many of the world's greatest hunters, explorers, and conservationists. You will read stories about such legends as Theodore Roosevelt and African professional hunter J. A. Hunter; the true story of Grizzly Adams; harrowing encounters involving William Hornaday and Ernest Thompson Seton; and a gut-wrenching story about Carl Akeley. There are many other legends in this spellbinding book, which brings to life all the tales that were told around campfires over the past 150 years. As you gaze at Seerey-Lester's authentic, wonderfully absorbing images, you will smell the smoke from the campfire, feel the freezing rain against your skin, and taste the dust from the African plains. Most certainly you will find yourself drifting back in time to join those honored men and women as they relate their adventures around the campfire.

A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us and the techniques of painting lively crowd scenes or portraits of loved ones can be picked up faster than you think. In this concise book, Hazel Soan explains everything you need to know about figurative painting in an accessible way. She advises on how to paint people in a variety of poses and settings, dealing with the theories of colour and light in a way that beginners will understand and more experienced painters will find invaluable. She also guides you through ways to insert people into your pre-existing painting to bring them to life; scenes like urban streets and on the beach are explored. Subjects like how to paint portraits and getting to grips with body proportion and perspective are also covered. Both media of watercolours and oils are covered, making this the perfect book for any type of artist. Filled with easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, this is a practical and helpful guide to learning to paint people very quickly.

Learn Wildlife Painting with Techniques from Masters With decades of experience at Chicago's renowned Field Museum, artist-in- residence Peggy Macnamara and scientific illustrator Marlene Hill Donnelly share tips on all aspects of painting wildlife in luminous watercolor. Painting Wildlife in Watercolor includes everything you'll need to know to from basics to finishing touches of rendering vibrant lifelike animals, birds and reptiles. Well-known for her "no fear" approach which bypasses traditional composition methods, Peggy Macnamara employs a technique of gradually applying color to develop rich subtle tones. Balancing this is Marlene Donnelly's clear and detailed instruction on drawing and painting techniques-the perfect complement to the "no fear" approach. The authors explore subject matter, color theory, design, light and shadow, and present several illustrative demonstrations. Macnamara describes her process as a form of meditation and encourages the student to compose their image using many light layers. She says of her technique, "It automatically builds depth in the liquid expression of the eyes as well as in the rich texture of fur and feathers." Whether rendering birds, mammals, or reptiles, these master artists will guide you as you create your own interpretation, step by step, as they share their years of experience. This innovative approach allows artists at all levels of experience to imbue their work with a fresh and subtle beauty. This book is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (ISBN 1635619475).