Painting Birds (Practical Art Books)

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• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.84

  Presents the work of 12 wildlife artists from around the world. Through studies, sketches, and paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolour, gouache and pastel, birds are brought to life in the pages of this book. Organized according to habitat, the book has a variety of sections; birds of field and garden - sparrows, grosbeaks, woodpeakers and wrens; wildfowl on the wing - ducks, geese, grebes and loon; the night hunters - owls; upland game birds - partridges and wild turkey; waders of the sea and shore - albatrosses, sandpipers and gulls; jungle birds - manakins and toucans; the predators - eagles, hawks and osprey. Susan Rayfield is the author of Wildlife Photography and Wildlife Painting: Techniques of the Modern Masters .