Drawing and Painting Insects

Drawing and Painting Insects
Author: Andrew Tyzack
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2013-06-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847976255

Drawing and Painting Insects is a beautiful and inspiring guide. Whatever your experience, whether new to the subject or a seasoned entomologist, this book will help you capture the beauty of insects by helping you understand their structure and appreciate their behaviour, movement, colour and habitat. Advice on finding insects to draw and paint, including how to raise your own insect models; Guide to the anatomy and life cycles of the insect for the artist; Step-by-step demonstrations of drawings, looking at perspective, tonal values and mark-making techniques; Examples of watercolour and oil paintings representing insects in precise, scientific renditions through to more creative interpretations; Introduction to other uses of insect illustration, including printmaking, sculpture, leather and glass; Illustrated with examples and insights from leading artists. A beautiful and inspiring guide to drawing and painting insects, of inspiration to botanical artists, natural historians, wildlife artists and biologists. Gives advice on finding insects to draw and paint, understanding their structure, appreciating their behaviour, movement, colour, habitat and much more. Superbly illustrated with examples and insights from leading artists - 541 colour illustrations in total. Andrew Tyzack is a graduate from the Royal College of Art and is well known for his painting of beekeepers and engravings of bees.

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants
Author: Melissa Washburn
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1631597558

Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. Designed as a contemporary, step-by-stepguidebook for artists who are learning to draw botanical forms, Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants features an inclusive array of florals, ferns, succulents, and more, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.

Architecture by Birds and Insects

Architecture by Birds and Insects
Author: Peggy Macnamara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Influential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, "All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space." But with just a small swap of a key word, Johnson could well have been describing animal nests. Birds and insects are nature's premier architects, using a dizzying array of talents to build functional homes in which to live, reproduce, and care for their young. Recycling sticks, branches, grass, and mud to construct their shelters, they are undoubtedly the originators of "green architecture." A visual celebration of these natural feats of engineering and ingenuity, Architecture by Birds and Insects allows readers a peek inside a wide range of nests, offering a rare opportunity to get a sense of the materials and methods used to build them. Here, we see the kinds of places where nests are built--for instance, the house wren has been known to occupy cow skulls, flower pots, tin cans, and the pockets of hanging laundry, while the uglynest caterpillar prefers rose bushes and cherry trees. Inspired by the vast nest collection at the Field Museum, which features specimens gathered throughout North and South America, Peggy Macnamara's paintings are enhanced by text written by museum curators. This narrative provides a foundation in natural history for each painting, as well as fascinating anecdotes about the nests and their builders. Like so many natural treasures, nests are easy to ignore. But Macnamara's gorgeous paintings will undoubtedly change that. Architecture by Birds and Insects at last gives the tiniest engineers their rightful moment in the spotlight, and in so doing increases awareness and encourages the protection of birds, insects, and their habitats. Readers will never look at a Frank Gehry design, or a treetop nest, the same way again.

The Art of Eric Carle

The Art of Eric Carle
Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1984813404

Carle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay on how Carle creates his collages, and writings by Carle and his colleagues. Still, it is the artwork in the oversize volume that seizes the imagination. More than 60 of his full-color collage pictures are handsomely reproduced and serve as a statement of Carle's impressive talent. - Booklist

Drawing Insects For Beginners - Step by Step Guide to Drawing Bugs

Drawing Insects For Beginners - Step by Step Guide to Drawing Bugs
Author: John Davidson
Publisher: JD-Biz Corp Publishing
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1310368708

Drawing Insects For Beginners Step by Step Guide to Drawing Bugs Table of Contents Drawing tools Warming up Pencil Rhino Beetle 9= Snail- eating Ground Beetle Stag Beetle Ink (pen & marker) Leaf Insect Grasshopper Domino Cockroach Color Bluebottle Fly Pangkin Dragonfly Blue Morpho Butterfly Author Bio Step by step methods to make drawing easy for the beginner. Look over our shoulder as we draw all of the insects. You will be able to practice and learn the shortcuts to creating realistic insect drawings using pencil, pens and colored pencils.

The Art of Migration

The Art of Migration
Author: Peggy Macnamara
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022604629X

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration, they pass along Chicago’s lakefront and through midwestern backyards on a path used by their species for millennia. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year in Chicagoland, yet it is often missed by the region’s two-legged residents. The Art of Migration uncovers these extraordinary patterns that play out over the seasons. Readers are introduced to over two hundred of the birds and insects that traverse regions from the edge of Lake Superior to Lake Michigan and to the rivers that flow into the Mississippi. As the only artist in residence at the Field Museum, Peggy Macnamara has a unique vantage point for studying these patterns and capturing their distinctive traits. Her magnificent watercolor illustrations capture flocks, movement, and species-specific details. The illustrations are accompanied by text from museum staff and include details such as natural histories, notable features for identification, behavior, and how species have adapted to environmental changes. The book follows a gentle seasonal sequence and includes chapters on studying migration, artist’s notes on illustrating wildlife, and tips on the best ways to watch for birds and insects in the Chicago area. A perfect balance of science and art, The Art of Migration will prompt us to marvel anew at the remarkable spectacle going on around us.

The Book of Nature

The Book of Nature
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1820
Genre:
ISBN:

A father tells his child about the wonder of the natural world from a Christian point of view.

Drawing Insects

Drawing Insects
Author: Karen Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781687867926

You can get FREE bonus book. All the information you will find on the last page. Yes, ideas! Ideas are beginnings, and they can be very fundamental in the realization of greater things. And so, this book could not only be used to serve as a resource of ideas for all you artists around and those who have the advanced set of skills in drawing, but also for those who are trying to discover the artist in them and to find their path in the realm of drawing. So, you might be thinking why you see a lot of words and letters on this page and in this book, so to speak, when this is a book of drawing. Well, you see, artists don't always talk with their brush or pencil. Non-drawers aren't forbidden to read this book, or else, this would be ridiculous. So, this is for all who can see and read. This can be a beginner's book on drawing as a few basics are also found in here. But as the title suggests, this is also book of ideas. Ideas are like little drops of water that later brings forth streams and rivers that nourishes life, both inanimate and animate, like the flowers and the trees and the insects that dwell around. Simple lines and circles make up something that can either please the eye and the soul, but sometimes they can also upset. Insects can be fascinating but also creepy. So, as a matter of precaution, this book may not be appropriate for those who are entomophobic, or those who fear of insects a lot.For those who are not, drawing insects can be fun. And by art, which means an expression of creative skill and imagination, this book is by no means intended to urge you what to do or not to do or to help you make a copy of these little creepy-crawlies around you, but hope to contribute to your imagination a little of something, from which you can build your own idea or even inspire you to make your own.Drawing insects brings about the artist in you and at the same time, gets you in touch with science too. It could also be a mental exercise and a good way to communicate your ideas as well. In whatever way you use drawing for, there can always be an effect, more or less, in you as the artist and on the viewer as well. What You'll learn: - Drawing Basics - Simple and Basic Tips and Techniques - Understanding the Insect External Anatomy - Step-By-Step Drawing - Advance Topics - Benefits of Drawing With Ink Tags: how to draw insects, how to draw insects for kids, how to draw basics, how to draw animals, how to draw animals for adults, how to draw animals in simple steps, how to draw animals for kids, drawing with ink, drawing ink pens, drawing techniques book, beginner drawing books for adults, beginner drawing books for kids, insects books for kids.

A Masterclass in Drawing and Painting Animals

A Masterclass in Drawing and Painting Animals
Author: Jonathan Truss
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780754820598

"Learn to produce beautiful studies of animals, observing the behavior, movement, textures and spirit that make each creature a unique subject."--Amazon.

How to Draw Insects

How to Draw Insects
Author: Barbara Soloff Levy
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2009-11-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486478300

Simple drawing guide for kids show how to create 30 accurate images, including a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walking stick, scorpion, carpenter ant, Japanese beetle, inchworm, centipede, termite, and other insects. Step-by-step lessons are accompanied by blank practice pages.