Painting Nature's Details in Watercolour by Cathy Johnson

Painting Nature's Details in Watercolour by Cathy Johnson

Capture Nature's Subtle Details with Expert Instruction

As your mind conjures up images of wide open spaces, sprawling landscapes or grand vistas when you think about painting from nature, step closer. This book will lend you an entirely new perspective.

Offering an intimate lens on nature's easy to overlook tenderness, this essential guide gives the
tools you need to capture the natural world's subtle detail in your own painting. Accomplished artist and naturalist Cathy Johnson shares her practical advice on portraying light and shadow, texture, water patterns, plants and flowers, and unique perspectives of nature's subtle beauty.

This book is a must-have for every artist of nature.

Johnson, Cathy a.: - Cathy Johnson has worked as a naturalist, writer, and freelance artist for the past 40 years, and was staff naturalist and contributing editor for Country Living magazine for 11 years. She has been a contributing editor to Artist's Magazine and Watercolor Artist, and authored a regular column in Personal Journaling, where she wrote on the importance of creativity in our lives. Her writing and artwork have been included in a number of nature anthologies and art books. She has written and illustrated many books, and contributed to a number of others, working with a variety of national publishing houses. In 1993, she founded her own small publishing company, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, which primarily offers books of interest to the reenacting community or others interested in history and material culture. She has been a longtime member of the Author's Guild. She was chosen Conservation Communicator of the Year by the Burroughs Audubon Society in l987, and won the Thorpe Menn Award for Creative Writing (AAUW) for The Naturalist's Cabin: Constructing the Dream (Viking Penguin) in 1992. Cathy teaches a number of self-directed mini-classes on her website, http: //cathyjohnson.info. She also offers a number of free tutorial videos on YouTube; visit https: //www.youtube.com/user/KateJosTube.

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ISBN 13	9780891343622
ISBN 10	0891343628
Title	Painting Nature's Details in Watercolour
Author	Cathy Johnson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	F&W Publications Inc
Year published	1991-09-30
Number of pages	160
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