This new book in the bestselling No Experience Required series includes 6 step-by-step demonstrations and 10 exercises to show you how to depict a variety of animals in a full range of mediums. Perfect for beginners, the exercises in this easy-to-follow guide are designed to yield immediate improvement in your work. You'll learn to use the most popular mediums including watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, and colored pencil to create a range of appealing animal subjects including cats, dogs, wild birds, horses and farm animals.

Anyone can draw - including you! Learn to draw today, even if you've never drawn before! Carrie Stuart Parks and Rick Parks, FBI-trained composite artists and drawing instructors, have taught thousands of people of all ages and skill levels how to turn out impressive realistic drawings. Discover how to: • Train your brain to re-create what you see through observation • Accurately capture main shapes and important details • Make your drawings incredibly lifelike with shading and blending • Identify and fix the parts of a drawing that look inaccurate With concise, memorable lessons and foolproof step-by-step instruction, this book makes learning to draw easy - and fun! Before you know it, you'll be creating picture-perfect illustrations of animals, still-lifes, people, landscapes and more. So if you think you can't draw, think again. Surprise yourself and others with your own spectacular drawings today!"With concise, memorable lessons and foolproof step-by-step instruction, this book makes learning to draw easy - and fun! Before you know it, you'll be creating picture-perfect illustrations of animals, still-lifes, people, landscapes and more. So if you think you can't draw, think again. Surprise yourself and others with your own spectacular drawings today!

Capturing the details is what makes wildlife painting come alive. Getting the fur, facial features and anatomy right with subjects that refuse to stand still adds to the challenge. Artist's Photo Reference: Wildlife saves the day by allowing you to concentrate on what's important - creating great art. Artist and photographer Bart Rulon provides hundreds of gorgeous full-color images showcasing nearly four dozen animals from a variety of angles. Each one has been taken with the needs of the artist in mind, ensuring that you save time, effort, money and worry. Stop wasting hours combing through endless magazines and books. You'll find all the high-quality reference photos you need right here! Rulon also provides guidelines for taking your own reference photos, plus five demonstrations in a variety of media, that illustrate how professional wildlife artists create extraordinary works of art by painting from photographs. Wildlife is the perfect addition to your reference library! Use it to save time, get inspired and create beautiful art of your own.

Favorite techniques from today's best animal artists! In this "best of the best" guide, ten best-selling artists share their favorite tips for rendering wildlife, beloved pets and farmyard animals. More than 30 step-by-step demonstrations provide key lessons that make painting these subjects less intimidating and more fun. Inside, you'll learn how to: capture realistic fur and feather textures, expressions and the many distinguishing details that make your paintings lifelike. work with a variety of media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and pastel. paint a variety of animals—dogs, cats, rabbits, sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, llamas, deer, elephants, birds and more. This ultimate reference is illustrated with stunning paintings in a range of styles, from acrylic ultra-realism to intuitive watercolor. Whether you find inspiration curled up next to you on the couch or deep in the wilds of Africa, this guide holds the secrets to capturing the character, grace and beauty of the animal kingdom.

In this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, one of the great children's portraitists covers every aspect of painting and drawing children. He starts by showing how children's anatomy differs from that of adults and telling how to get to know the child. 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Color Plates -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Relational Ethics and Aesthetics -- Being and Thinking with Art and Animals -- Between Presence and Absence -- An Ethical Art History -- 2 Dogged Flesh: Rembrandt's Presentation in the Temple, c. 1640 -- Real and Represented Dogs -- Rembrandt's Three R's: Radical, Reflective, Revelatory -- The Rhetoric of Etching -- Fleshly Experience -- Past Made Present -- 3 Glances with Wolves: Encounters with Little John and Joseph Beuys -- Entangled Encounters -- Seeing and Being with Little John -- Presencing Other Worlds -- Imaginative Empathy -- Gathering Together in the Gap -- 4 Glimpse into the Unknown: Contemporary Taxidermy and Photography -- Spaces Between: Yellow and Taza -- Respecting Unknowns -- Dominance, Submission, and Freedom: Inert and Progression of Regression -- Death and the Object (Ars longa vita brevis est) -- From Hierarchy to Horizontality -- 5 "We Are All Connected": Experiencing Art and Nature at Horseshoe Canyon -- Guided by Dogs and Children -- "We Are All Connected"--Dwelling with Dogs and Earth -- Accessing Histories with Attentive Care -- Art and Earth as Places of Emergence -- 6 Caring for Art and Animals -- Bibliography -- Index