How to Draw and Paint Animals: In Pencil, Charcoal, Line and Watercolor [Paperback]

Linda Birch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Here's what you need to find the confidence to draw your favorite pets and wildlife. Includes tips on finding subjects, using photographs and working on location.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Birch has illustrated over 150 books and is a specialist in depicting animals. Here, she has produced the best general manual on the subject?one that many artists find awkward. Using a variety of media, Birch begins with simplified forms, focuses on silhouettes, ears, and eyes, then turns to movement and personality. She ends with a fine section on composition and placing animals within natural contexts. This is a more satisfying and sophisticated volume than former Disney artist Bill Tilton's Drawing & Painting Animals (LJ
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About the Author

Linda Birch is a highly successful painter and freelance book illustrator with over 100 titles to her credit. She writes regular articles for Leisure Painter magazine and lives in County Durham, England. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: David & Charles Publishers (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0715309307
• ISBN-13: 978-0715309308
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,279,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Arts & Photography > Drawing > Specific Objects

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book to treasure, April 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Draw and Paint Animals in Pencil, Charcoal, Line and Watercolour (Hardcover)

This book's modest title fauils to describe its full worth. It is full of good sense, sound technical information and really excellent drawing. Linda Birch has a mastery of all media,and her writing displays the confidence of a gifted teacher. Her authority stems partly from her own obvious love of animals and her careful observation of them. She faces the question "Oh dear, I shall never be able to do that" with an encouraging "Yes you can, and I will show you how". Everything is here - texture, movement, anatomy, all brought together through many years of experience of teaching. Linda offers regular painting courses in Durham, and in other parts of England. Her students will be very fortunate, having the benefit of the fluency and wit which shines from these pages. A book to treasure.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An ideal introduction for beginners., February 4, 2000

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This review is from: How to Draw and Paint Animals in Pencil, Charcoal, Line and Watercolour (Hardcover)

Linda Birch's How To Draw And Paint Animals tells how to draw animals using pencil, charcoal, line and watercolor, with color photos and drawings of both finished and half-complete subjects making for an excellent guide.