- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books (Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0891348131
- ISBN-13: 978-0891348139
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.1 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 466,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Celebrate nature's beauty in pen, ink and watercolor with Claudia Nice as your guide. With Claudia's clear, friendly step-by-step instruction, you'll feel like you're right there with her, painting quiet forest scenes, coral reefs teeming with color, prairies, deserts, ponds and mountains...six ecosystems in all.
About the Author
Claudia Nice is a self-taught artist who has developed her realistic style by sketching from nature. Throughout her career, she has won numerous awards for her work and has shared her masterful techniques through her workshops and bestselling books. These titles include Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink and How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal. She lives in Sandy, Oregon.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book based on the strength of Ms. Nice's previous book Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor. I was equally pleased and delighted with this one as much as with her previous work.
It first starts out with some very basic pen & ink strokes and techniques along with some watercolor texturing techniques (such as using crumpled plastic wrap which gives a surprisingly snow crystal-like texture).
The next chapters move quickly on to using these techniques as applied to creating wildlife paintings and/or scenic landscapes. For example, in one chapter she starts out showing step by step details of a bird wildlife painting. One of the interesting things is that the bird pen & ink was done in sepia ink rather than the more typical black. The next page showed a step by step of the ferns in the painting along with moss and wood. The last page in the chapter showed all of these things pulled together into the final painting. Each painting gets the same "how-to" treatment. The result is that someone could easily duplicate each of the paintings in the book.
There are also a wealth of mini-demonstrations such as leaves, frogs, birds, seashells, fish, starfish, flowers, grass, trees, etc. All of them most likely pulled from actual full paintings she has done but probably not included due to space and page-length considerations. Each one of the mini-pictures provides another step by step build-up so you can practice first without neccessarily committing to a big project. In short, it just looks like fun.
I don't really see how anyone could be disappointed with this book. You're bound to learn something new to try with your own paintings. I certainly did. :)
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor
12 Mar 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love Claudia Nice and buy her books. She is the real expert on pen and ink. That's why I bought this one. It is an excellent book but imagine my vast disappointment when I discovered I already had it. Except for a few overview pages, this entire book is in Painting With Watercolor, Pen and Ink.
Watercolor book
1 Mar 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Beautifully illustrated watercolor book!! these colors are awesome and illustrations beautiful and easy to follow. this book was purchased from Amazon at an excellent price and fast shipping.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
painting nature in pin and ink
12 Jan 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love this book. If you love observing nature and painting about what you see, you will find this book very helpful. The book is easy to follow, and beautifully illustrated.
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