Northlight have published some wonderful inspiring books on wildlife art, and I had hoped this book would be as good. It is a good book if you are a beginner, or if you don't own any of the myriad of other 'how to' titles, but if you do, you will sadly see a lot of repetition and not much new work. I have Northlight books several years old that contain the same paintings, so I was disappointed with this offering. It would be lovely to see some of these talented artists move away from this formula and start to give a bit more insight into their thoughts and working process which goes beyond this very basic predictable formula.