Wildlife Painting Basics - Small Animals
Having trouble keeping your ferret still for a portrait? Here  are three books for capturing small critters, Hammond's in  colored pencils, Scott's in paints, and Wynne's in both. Hammond  is a highly accomplished artist with several North Light books  to her credit. Here she has developed a special graphing system  for beginners, primarily for drawing cats, dogs, horses, and  squirrels but for a few bears and tigers, too. It's an excellent  system for those intimidated by the variations of eyes, mouths,  ears, and feet found on our furry companions. Scott's approach  is for the advanced student who wants a more classically based  style for painting rabbits, ferrets, mice, raccoons, and foxes.  The influence of the Old Masters can be detected in her 41  mini-demonstrations and 16 full treatments in oil, acrylic,  gouache, and pencil. Wynne is a British artist who has painted  many well-known and royal pets, including the horses at the  Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace. Hers is a lovely, loose style  using either pencils or watercolors for cats, dogs, rabbits,  guinea pigs, and horses. All three books are recommended and  should prove popular. For large wild animals, see Cynthie  Fisher's Wildlife Painting Basics: Deer, Antelope & Other Hooved  Animals; for more narrow detail, see Rachel Rubin Wolf's Keys to  Painting: Fur & Feathers.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.