- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books; illustrated edition edition (13 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0891348123
- ISBN-13: 978-0891348122
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,147,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Wildlife artist Terry Isaac shares advice and tips on how to create realistic wildlife paintings in acrylics. The book includes four painting demonstrations which go through the process from start to finish.'
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Terry Isaac is one of the most often selected "feature artists" at national and international wildlife art exhibitions. His work has been featured in Audubon's Bird Handbooks, Painting Birds Step by Step and The Best of Wildlife Art.
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Special moments in nature are derived from a variety of factors ranging from lighting conditions, weather and atmosphere to a particular behavior of a bird or animal. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In contrast to the abundance of books on oil and watercolor painting there are few high quality books on acrylic painting. This book however helps fill that gap. The numerous photos of step-by-step techniques for painting everything from backgrounds to various types of fur (dry, wet, patterned, white) to eyes, feathers, leaves, grass, clouds, water, waterdrops, rocks, snow, special effects and a gallery of textures is a feast for the eyes. If not for the close-up photos I would think Isaac was painting in oil.
The author covers composition do's and don'ts, balance, repetition, lighting, getting a correct pose and other tips for integrating the subject into the scene. The numerous demonstrations list the supplies used for each painting followed with step-by-step details of composition and techniques. The end of the book shows a gallery of some of Isaac's paintings and an index. These techniques can be used by anyone wanting to paint wildlife scenes in an opaque manner - not only acrylics. I've sat with this book open beside my paintings and continually used these techniques for several wildlife paintings I made in casein, Chromacolour and even alkyd. This is a book to be used, not read then stored away on the bookshelf. Get it and see your wildlife paintings improve.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I agree with everything that the previous reviewer said, but I must add that wildlife does not just include things with fur and feathers. Scaley things and bugs would be useful in the next edition and would be worth the extra money or maybe a seperate book so I don't have to buy the same material twice.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful
A rare gem of a find
1 Oct 1999
Format:Hardcover
What a find! This book is a gem. The pictures are inspirational and the painting tips are priceless. Few artists completely open up and tell you all their secrets. Terry Isaac does, and for that I thank him. He tells you how to photograph your subjects and combine several photographs to make one dynamic wildlife painting. He discusses his mistakes and how he corrected them. The tips on painting fur is reason enough to have this book in your collection! A must for landscape and wildlife artists.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Top of the line...
27 Sep 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book like the artist is top notch. It's hard to find a book done by a world class artist. Terry Isaac is such an artist. Any one of the concepts presented in this book it worth the books price. All aspects of his thought processes and painting technics are revealed. Terry shows step by step examples of how he created works that he exhibits, not stuff whipped out to create a book. If your looking for a book on wildlife painting or landscape painting your not going to find a better book.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This is a dramatic wildlife book!
23 Aug 2002
Format:Hardcover
I like this book, it is very attentitive to small details, the resulting paintings are very naturalistic and often very dramatic as well. The artist knows about nature and it shows.
The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and you just sit there, stuck and fascinated.
The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and you just sit there, stuck and fascinated.
The book is using acrylic paints, but the book can be absolutely and utterly recommended for oil and watercolor as well. Even if you aren't an artist it is well worth just for browsing on the coffee table... Buy it, steal it, borrow it, just Get it.
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