Peggy Dean S Guide To Nature Drawing And Watercolor

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399582158

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Peggy Dean's Guide to Nature Drawing and Watercolor by Peggy Dean Pdf

This fun and easy-to-use nature drawing and watercolor guide is perfect for anyone inspired by nature to draw, doodle, ink, and paint colorful flora and fauna. Artist, author, and popular art instructor Peggy Dean presents this nature drawing guide that teaches you how to master drawing and watercolor techniques from sketching and shading to washes and blending. With Peggy's easy and energetic lessons, absolutely anyone--regardless of ability--can learn to draw the natural world. Beginning with delicate cherry blossoms, wildflowers, and lacy ferns, lessons build to composing stunning bouquets of flowers and majestic landscapes. You'll also discover how to draw animals such as colorful fish and birds in flight, as well as mammals like stoic camels and the mighty polar bear. Through the lessons on technique combined with clear, detailed instructions, you'll gain the expertise and confidence that will allow you to quickly build your skills, discover your own personal style, and achieve beautiful botanical and animal illustrations.

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974807371

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Peggy Dean's Guide to Nature Drawing and Watercolor by Peggy Dean Pdf

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399582202

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Botanical Line Drawing by Peggy Dean Pdf

From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts. Line drawing is an easy-to-master art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations. Botanical Line Drawing teaches you how to start with the simplest doodles, building into more elaborate, delicate illustrations. This book focuses on the extremely popular subject matter of the natural world and includes flowers, leaves, succulents, houseplants, trees, branches, mushrooms, and more. These simple line drawings will allow you to branch out and have fun with your own personal style, as well as inspire you to add flourishes to other projects.

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Health Communications Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0757320015

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Lettering in the Whimsical Woodlands by Peggy Dean Pdf

Whether you want to create an eye-catching banner for a party, some nature inspired place cards for your table, or you just want to relax while enjoying the art of lettering, this is your go-to guide. With a growing legion of hand-lettering fans on Instagram and her Skillshare classes, Peggy Dean is a rising star in the lettering world. As a follow-up to her successful book, The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide, Dean is going back to nature in this woodland-themed book packed full of projects, lettering tutorials, drawing how-tos, and a wealth of practice pages. Lettering in the Whimsical Woodlands provides plenty of space to practice basic and intermediate strokes, with the goal of creating your personal lettering style. Once you've mastered lettering, Dean shows you how to draw a variety of woodland creatures, including chipmunks, birds, bunnies, and foxes, as well as flowers, leaves, acorns, mushrooms, and other flourishes. By combining your lettering with line drawings, you can create stunning works of art, including home décor, invitations, gift tags, and unique holiday tablescapes. For those in need of inspiration, Dean provides a bevy of fun and creative do-it-yourself ideas. This book will provide you with an elevated lettering experience and many hours of practical, clever projects. It's the joy of lettering meets DIY fun!

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399582165

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Peggy Dean's Guide to Nature Drawing and Watercolor by Peggy Dean Pdf

This fun and easy-to-use nature drawing and watercolor guide is perfect for anyone inspired by nature to draw, doodle, ink, and paint colorful flora and fauna. Artist, author, and popular art instructor Peggy Dean presents this nature drawing guide that teaches you how to master drawing and watercolor techniques from sketching and shading to washes and blending. With Peggy's easy and energetic lessons, absolutely anyone--regardless of ability--can learn to draw the natural world. Beginning with delicate cherry blossoms, wildflowers, and lacy ferns, lessons build to composing stunning bouquets of flowers and majestic landscapes. You'll also discover how to draw animals such as colorful fish and birds in flight, as well as mammals like stoic camels and the mighty polar bear. Through the lessons on technique combined with clear, detailed instructions, you'll gain the expertise and confidence that will allow you to quickly build your skills, discover your own personal style, and achieve beautiful botanical and animal illustrations.

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Pigeon Letters
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998558540

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Animal Line Drawing by Peggy Dean Pdf

This simple line drawing guide features all of our favorite animals, insects, fish, birds, even dinosaurs and kitties! After Dean's success in her best-selling book, Botanical Line Drawing, she more presents animals in the same quick and easy instructional format. Easy-to-understand steps are presented on each page, void of written instruction or over-the-top explanation. Gain basic skills by drawing simple shapes and mark-making, leaving just enough creative room to explore your own style as you practice. So sit down, put pen to paper and get drawing!

Author : Peggy Dean
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399582172

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The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide by Peggy Dean Pdf

From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, a complete guide to learning and perfecting brush lettering, a forgiving style of modern calligraphy that encourages creative expression and imprecision, including basic skills, flourishes, and project ideas. The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide has something for everyone--from beginners that have never used a brush pen, to seasoned letterers looking for a new style or ideas for creative flourishes. From choosing the best pens and paper and knowing the different styles of lettering, to adding color to your finished pieces--this book covers it all. The book includes templates for labels, cards, handmade bunting, and word collages. It even includes a how to guide for posting your best work on social media. Each lesson builds on itself, unlocking endless opportunities inside the playful art of brush lettering. As a self-taught artist who left her day job to pursue a creative life, Peggy Dean is the ideal teacher for artists and non-artists alike.

Author : Wendy Hollender
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781984856722

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The Joy of Botanical Drawing by Wendy Hollender Pdf

A gorgeous, easy-to-follow, and inspiring guide to stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Achieve amazingly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so dazzling you feel as if you might be able to smell them, to tomatoes that look as if they've just been picked from the garden. Wendy Hollender is known for her vivid, detailed, and inspiring illustrations and in The Joy of Botanical Drawing, she helps you take your art to the next level by sharing her perfected techniques through short lessons that start simple, then build on the basics with easy-to-use and clear step-by-step illustrations. Using colored pencils and watercolor pencils, Hollender shows you how to accomplish scientifically accurate botanical portraits of a spiraling pine cone, a spiky chestnut, a fuchsia-tined radish, a graceful morning glory, and many more. From colorful leaves to delicate petals to textured bark and slender stems, The Joy of Botanical Drawing will give you the skills to complete lifelike drawings while also enjoying nature and the mindfulness of a regular drawing practice.

Author : Wendy Hollender
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823007066

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Botanical Drawing in Color by Wendy Hollender Pdf

A thorough immersion into the world of scientifically accurate, three-dimensional, and artistically rendered natural botanical illustration. The step-by-step instructions in this invaluable guide, written by one of the nation’s leading experts in the field, Wendy Hollender, will grow your artistic ability, whether you’re just broaching this unique skill or are already an expert. Each lesson in the book increases in complexity to build your skill set in a clear, concise, and accessible way. With a focus on the natural world through the botanical life-cycle, each project is not only a technical study, but a beautiful piece of artwork in and of itself. In this book, you will learn: • Single light source toning technique • Principles of perspective for drawing flowers • The fundamentals of plant anatomy • Colored pencil techniques and color theory of the natural world

Author : Felix Scheinberger
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780770435240

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Urban Watercolor Sketching by Felix Scheinberger Pdf

A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods. Watercolor sketching is a rapidly emerging technique that enlivens sketches done in pen or pencil with the expressive washes, glazes, and luminous hues of watercolor . This lushly illustrated resource teaches artists on the go how to sketch with watercolor, rendering subjects efficiently and without inhibitions. Readers are guided through all aspects of the medium, from fundamental techniques including wet-on-wet, glazing, and washes; materials and supplies; and little known tips and tricks for getting the most out of watercolor (for example, just sprinkling a little salt on your painting creates a texture that's impossible to achieve with a brush.) A strong focus color theory provides a solid foundation for enhancing drawings with vibrant hues.

Author : Chika Miyata
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781631591402

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How to Draw Almost Everything by Chika Miyata Pdf

Whether you need to draw a coat, a flying squirrel, or someone doing a handstand, this is the ultimate reference for anyone who loves to draw!

Author : Editors Of Martha Stewart Weddings
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780307954657

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Martha Stewart Weddings by Editors Of Martha Stewart Weddings Pdf

With rich photography, expert voice, and taste-making style, Martha Stewart Weddings—a brand-new volume, the first in nearly two decades—is at once a guide to and inspiration for planning a wedding. Since the debut of Martha Stewart Weddings in 1995, it has been the premier resource for couples looking to plan and personalize their big day. To coincide with the brand’s 20th anniversary, the magazine’s team of experts has compiled a comprehensive guide to their distinctive way of creating a customized celebration. It’s packed with the original ideas, real-wedding photographs, and tried-and-true advice for which the brand has become known. From the engagement to the day itself, every detail is covered. Readers will learn what goes into making a “Martha” wedding, which includes dreaming up a cohesive theme and color palette, as well as finding a dress and suit, registering for gifts, enjoying showers and bachelor(ette) parties, hiring vendors, choosing the flowers and cake, and orchestrating a sweet send-off for the evening. With 300 full-color photographs, Martha Stewart Weddings will be the most gorgeous and practical wedding book on the market and a keepsake for every bride.

Author : Melissa Washburn
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781631597558

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Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants by Melissa Washburn Pdf

Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. Designed as a contemporary, step-by-stepguidebook for artists who are learning to draw botanical forms, Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants features an inclusive array of florals, ferns, succulents, and more, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.

Author : Samantha Dion Baker
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781984858207

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Draw Your World by Samantha Dion Baker Pdf

See the world around you in a whole new way with this inspiring guide to nature drawing, urban sketching, travel drawing, drawing from memory or photos, and sketch journaling. In Draw Your World, Samantha Dion Baker gives you everything you need to begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one. She shares her favorite tools and materials, simple technical lessons such as composition, shadows and light, symmetry, and perspective, plus fun motivational exercises like drawing from memory, urban sketching, travel journaling, and experimental art. With helpful step-by-steps and stunning visual examples from Baker's own work, Draw Your World will help you hone your skills and capture the details of your unique and remarkable life in a sketch journal or as finished artwork.

Author : Penny Brown
Publisher : SearchPress+ORM
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781266113

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Botanical Drawing by Penny Brown Pdf

The definitive artist's guide to drawing detailed and accurate plants, flowers and other vegetation in pencil—including illustrations and exercises. Botanical Drawing provides a thorough and expert guide to the subject, touching on the history of this fascinating art form as well as its rules and practicalities. Artist Penny Brown explains the materials, learnings and techniques required to produce accurate botanical illustrations. She also includes an accessible, basic study of botany for the absolute beginner. By following Brown’s step-by-step instructions, close studies and explorations of the subjects, you will be able to produce your own illustrations of plants, flowers, vegetables and their myriad parts. Botanical Drawing offers knowledge, techniques, and inspiration as you create your own projects.