Capture all the natural charm and personality of your favourite animals!
Bestselling author and teacher Claudia Nice makes it fun with easy to follow, step-by-step guidance. Generously illustrated lessons and clear instructions show how to create an entire managerie of lively animals using Claudia's wonderful trademark pen, ink and watercolour techniques.
Whether you are a beginner attempting to paint your first animals or a more experienced artist looking to broaden your skills, this entertaining and instructive book is a real 'must have' for your library!
Northlight - Hardback - 144 Pages - Colour Throughout
ISBN: 9781581807769
Author: Claudia Nice
Capture nature's beauty as you never have before. Beloved artist and teacher Claudia Nice leads you on an inspired journey through the great outdoors. With paints in hand, she shares with you her best techniques for creating landscapes that come alive with richness, depth and textural detail.
Open this guide and start painting right away. As you follow engaging, step by step demonstrations and excercises, you'll learn to recreate the textural elements of a range of terrains and landscapes. Chapters inlcude:
- Creative Clouds and Skies
- Majestic Mountains, Hills and Mesas
- Texturing Trees, Trunks and Foliage
- Rugged Rocks and Gritty Gravel
- Transparent Textiles for Rivers, Falls and Lakes
- Flowers of the Field
In a special section, Claudia covers basic texturing techniques with mini demos using lines, dots bruising, scribbling, spattering, blotting, printing, stamping and more. From paints and pens to sponges, leaves and facial tissue, you'll explore all kinds of fun and inventive ways to create amazing textures.
To help you put it all together, Claudia includes her masterful advice for creating compositions using reference photos, field sketches and your own creative license. Each demonstration features a large image of the completed landscape, so you can see exactly how Claudia's methods work- from start to finish.
North Light - Hardback - 144 Pages - Colour Throughout
Author: Claudia Nice
ISBN: 9781581809275
Using inks and liquid watercolour paints specially made for pens, Claudia Nice shows artists of all skill levels how to achieve the warm moods, rough textures and mellow hues of aging barns, farmhouses, mansions and more. Claudia reveals simple methods for rendering a range of charming subjects. She includes a wide variety of textures, from peeling paint and rusting iron to stone and stucco. Her techniques are based on fundamental artistic concepts, including value, perspective, colour and shape, and her easy-to-follow methods make results immediately gratifying for all artists.
Book: North Light. Paperback. 144 pages. Colour throughout
Subject: 6
Medium: 6
Medium: 1
Author: Claudia Nice
ISBN: 9781581804324
Capture the magic of the sea with popular artist Claudia Nice!
Begin by learning the basics and advance at your own pace as you follow over 60 step-by-step demonstrations, ranging from mini demos to complete watercolour painting projects.
Learn to paint each element of coastal scenery, including crashing waves, wide sandy beaches, gently rolling surf, colourful boats and harbours, luminous ocean sunsets, and warm tropical scenes with kids and dogs at play.
Find out how to mix watercolour for both active and still water, as well as learning how to create the textures of sand and rock. Also, discover how to add drama and realism to your paintings with the help of dozens of quick tips.
With the help of Claudia's inspiring book, soon you will be able to draw and paint beautiful coastal scenes with ease!
North Light Books. Hardback. 144 pages. Colour Throughout
Author: Claudia Nice
ISBN: 9781600611636
This is a book about observation, about finding subjects that are either concealed or so mundane as to be hiding in plain sight.
Claudia Nice is well known for her detailed drawings and paintings of small subjects and, after some excursions into wider vistas, she returns to that theme here. You'll find simple guides to painting skies, clouds, sunsets and water as well as leaves, berries and yes, weathered wood.
There's much more here, though, with ideas such as creating designs using koi carp, or city lights at night. Sudden treats pop up too, such as a spread on Populating the Scene - simple notes on how to include people where and when they're needed.
The book is a collection of ideas, exercises and hints, loosely collected into themes such as Nostalgic Buildings, Wild Wanderings and Out In The Weather, but in reality best dipped into serendipitously. That way you'll get the constant delight of new discoveries and, confronted by things you never thought of as subjects, be overtaken with an eagerness to paint them immediately.
Not all the ideas will be for everyone but, with Claudia, you can be sure that there's not a dud among them.
Book: North Light. 128 Pages. Paperback. Colour Throughout.
Author: Claudia Nice
ISBN: 9781440318351