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| Painting Nature | 
 enlarge | Author: Peggy Harris
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 661727
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1581807155
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.4
EAN: 9781581807158
ASIN: 1581807155
Publication Date: July 14, 2005
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Product Description
From a perfectly posed butterfly to a delicately tinted leaf to tiny eggs in a bird's nest, realistic natural details enhance a painting's appeal. Now internationally-acclaimed artist and teacher Peggy Harris shares with painters: -Smart techniques, such as using isolation windows, to single out and really see tiny, fascinating elements of nature -Tips on how to accurately portray an array of subjects, including ladybugs, dragonflies, frogs, wildflowers, vines and more -Short painting demos featuring common flora and fauna found in woods and forests, ponds and streams, and meadows and hills, so painters can create their own scenes -6 vignettes, showing readers how to put the details together Painting Nature with Peggy Harris inspires readers' imaginations while giving them the techniques they need to paint attractive and convincing nature scenes.
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 Average March 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not what I thought I was buying at all. No use to me at all.
Personally, I didn't like or want to emulate the painting style used throughout the book so it was a bit pointless. I wanted tips, not step by step paint-a-flower instructions! Others may well disagree though!
More crafty than fine arty.
 Beautiful and unique book for Acrylic painting February 6, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a book for acrylic painters who already have experience painting in acrylics. I am mostly a watercolor painter, so at first, I was a little disappointed, but on looking at the book carefully, the paintings are truly BEAUTIFUL and the subjects are not ones that I have seen in many how-to painting books. The subjects are such things as POND AND STREAMS---fish, crawdads, tadpoles,catfish,dragonflies and damselflies, waterlilies,frogs (different varieties), cattails and blue flags(flower), turtles.
MEADOWS AND HILLS: grasses and foxtails, clover, grasshoppers, vines and flowered vines, raspberries and strawberries, Queen Anne's lace, ladybugs and other insects, butterflies, dandelions, bees, black-eyed Susans, moths, hornets and wasps, milkweed and sumac, spiders and crickets.
WOODS AND FORESTS: limbs and twigs, bark, lichens and moss, oaks and acorns, autumn leaves, box turtles and snails, toads and salamanders, mushrooms, pinecones, pine and spruce, cedars, firs and evergreens, ivy and shade leaves, violets, ferns, common leaves, dogwood, redbud, bird and nests, bird eggs, feathers.
The paintings in this book are excellent. The author shows steps in her process of achieving the finished product for each subject, but for a beginner, I would need more steps and demonstration. Even so, I like this book and think more advanced painters would benefit a lot more from it. I also like the subject matter-- ones not found in your everyday art lesson book.
Great Book For All Types of Painting September 15, 2005
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Peggy Harris's style of painting works well with tole, oil and even watercolor. Her step by step instructions I found to be easy to follow. Great book ! ... this one is a keeper.
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