Painting Nature: Discover the Delightful Details of Nature

by Peggy Harris

Book Overview

See and paint nature as never before From a perfectly posed butterfly to a delicately tinted leaf to tiny eggs in a bird's nest, realistic natural details enhance a painting's appeal. Now... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581803605
• ISBN13: 9781581803600
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Once again Peggy Harris has brought us a beautiful, inspiring book. I love nature so reading her book and studying the drawings really gets the imagination working. It's an exciting book and I'm proud to own a copy. Highly recommend for beginner or advanced.

Good for beginners

This is a good book for beginners. Her use of color is good and the step by step basics are there.

Beautiful and unique book for Acrylic painting

This is a book for acrylic painters who already have experience painting in acrylics. I am mostly a watercolor painter, so at first, I was a little disappointed, but on looking at the book carefully, the paintings are truly BEAUTIFUL and the subjects are not ones that I have seen in many how-to painting books. The subjects are such things as POND AND STREAMS---fish, crawdads, tadpoles,catfish,dragonflies and damselflies, waterlilies,frogs (different varieties), cattails and blue flags(flower), turtles. MEADOWS AND HILLS: grasses and foxtails, clover, grasshoppers, vines and flowered vines, raspberries and strawberries, Queen Anne's lace, ladybugs and other insects, butterflies, dandelions, bees, black-eyed Susans, moths, hornets and wasps, milkweed and sumac, spiders and crickets. WOODS AND FORESTS: limbs and twigs, bark, lichens and moss, oaks and acorns, autumn leaves, box turtles and snails, toads and salamanders, mushrooms, pinecones, pine and spruce, cedars, firs and evergreens, ivy and shade leaves, violets, ferns, common leaves, dogwood, redbud, bird and nests, bird eggs, feathers. The paintings in this book are excellent. The author shows steps in her process of achieving the finished product for each subject, but for a beginner, I would need more steps and demonstration. Even so, I like this book and think more advanced painters would benefit a lot more from it. I also like the subject matter-- ones not found in your everyday art lesson book.

Great Book For All Types of Painting

Peggy Harris's style of painting works well with tole, oil and even watercolor. Her step by step instructions I found to be easy to follow. Great book ! ... this one is a keeper.