Capturing the essence
Subtitle: techniques for bird artists
By: William T. Cooper
Contributors: CSIRO Publishing
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780300176261
Subjects: Birds in art; Ornithological illustration; Technique; Painting; Drawing; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Techniques for bird artists
Notes: Simultaneously published: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123).
Table of contents: title: Part A - the basics; title: Materials; title: Aids; title: Some principles of painting; title: Anatomy of birds (for the artist); title: Sketching from life; title: Measured drawings; title: Black and whites; title: Ideas; title: Part B - the paintings; title: A painting in watercolours; title: A painting in acrylics; title: A painting in oils.