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The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature

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This lavishly illustrated sketching and watercolor primer reveals how creating art can enhance any wilderness experience. With a skillful blend of inspiration and instruction, artist and naturalist Cathy Johnson offers personal anecdotes, exercises, and helpful tips to guide even first-time artists in using sketching and painting to deepen their understanding of the natural world.
Featuring simple, step-by-step instructions and 280 examples of the author's own work—in color and black-and-white—The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature covers a broad range of subjects, including tools and equipment; mixing paints and washes; understanding color and using a color wheel; capturing the illusion of light; sketching clouds, flowers, trees, plants, and animals; and using field sketches as studies for future paintings. The book also includes source lists for art supplies , lists of national workshops for sketching and painting, and a bibliography.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sierra Club Books

Release: April 01, 1997

ISBN: 0871569329

ISBN 13: 9780871569325

The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature

4.2/5 ( ratings)

This lavishly illustrated sketching and watercolor primer reveals how creating art can enhance any wilderness experience. With a skillful blend of inspiration and instruction, artist and naturalist Cathy Johnson offers personal anecdotes, exercises, and helpful tips to guide even first-time artists in using sketching and painting to deepen their understanding of the natural world.
Featuring simple, step-by-step instructions and 280 examples of the author's own work—in color and black-and-white—The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature covers a broad range of subjects, including tools and equipment; mixing paints and washes; understanding color and using a color wheel; capturing the illusion of light; sketching clouds, flowers, trees, plants, and animals; and using field sketches as studies for future paintings. The book also includes source lists for art supplies , lists of national workshops for sketching and painting, and a bibliography.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sierra Club Books

Release: April 01, 1997

ISBN: 0871569329

ISBN 13: 9780871569325

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