No Excuses Watercolor Animals

Create your favourite animals in watercolour in a loose, expressive way. Experience the freedom of watercolour painting and let go of fear! You'll have no excuse not to paint when you follow Gina Rossi Armfield as she shares her intuitive and inspirational approach to sketching and painting animals. Watercolour is the perfect medium for capturing the flowing textures, patterns and playful personalities of your favourite furry, feathered and farmyard friends. And it's fun using organic, sketchbook-style techniques to create soulful animal portraits. No intimidating exercises--just colourful and expressive works of art! The animal field guide is divided into 3 sections--Paws, Claws and Hooves--with 15 different animal projects that each include a photo reference, color palette and sketch template. Inside you'll find: ? Tricks for painting fur, feathers, beaks, claws, hooves and eyes ? Essential and easy paintbrush and watercolour instruction ? Guidance for working from photo reference ? Creative background and text overlay ideas AUTHOR: Gina Rossi Armfield is the author of No Excuses Art Journaling, No Excuses Watercolor and has produced two DVDs for Artist's Network. She has degrees in both fine art and education. She teaches at several major art retreats and hosts online courses on her popular website NoExcusesArt.com.