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Painting Animals That Touch the Heart (Hardcover)

by Lesley Harrison (Author) "Wouldn't you love to work in a medium that not very many people use and have your work stand out as "different"?..." (more)
Key Phrases: brown soft pastel, black soft pastel, velour paper, Apply the Basecoat, Hard Pastels Black Dark, Surface Gray (more...)
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Popular artist Harrison has perfected her technique over decades of practice, achieving success in part because of the emotion she both brings to her work and evokes with her expressive animal portraits. She thoroughly explores painting techniques, materials, and lighting, then, dispelling the notion that animals lack feelings because they cannot speak, moves beyond technical considerations to help artists identify and convey animal emotions so that they're "telling their stories" in images rather than words. Many large, full-color plates with step-by-step instructions show examples of subjects such as big cats, wolves, horses, birds of prey, foxes, and dogs and cats, providing something for every artist and animal aficionado. Whitney Scott
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Book Description
For many artists, evoking emotion and feeling is the ultimate goal of their work. Popular wildlife artist Lesley Harrison shows readers how to do just that in Painting Animals that Touch the Heart.

She covers everything from specific pastel painting techniques to choosing papers, reference materials and lighting. Another key component of the book is Harrison's strategy for identifying emotion in animals--the first critical step for a dramatic painting.

Readers will find a chapter dedicated to each of these popular animals:

-Big cats -Wolves -Horses -Dogs and cats -Baby animals (including a lion cub, gosling, bunny and otter pup)


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: North Light Books; 1 edition (September 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1581801319
  • ISBN-13: 978-1581801316
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
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