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Painting Nature's Details Meriel Thurstan

Painting Nature's Details By Meriel Thurstan

Painting Nature's Details by Meriel Thurstan


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A practical guide to the art of painting nature. Award-winning authors Meriel Thurstan and Rosie Martin demonstrate how to capture a host of wonderful natural history subjects, from fish, feathers, butterflies and bugs to eggshells and sea life.

Painting Nature's Details Summary

Painting Nature's Details by Meriel Thurstan

A practical guide to painting nature's flora and fauna from award-winning botanical painting authors Meriel Thurstan and Rosie Martin.

Recording the wildlife that surrounds us is an age-old art. The authors, in collaboration with the Eden Project, show us how to accurately and beautifully capture the natural world on canvas and make the most of the revival of this art form.

Step by step, they take you through the whole process of capturing the essence of some of the most beautiful things on earth. From dinosaur skeletons and fossils to birds, butterflies and frogs. Learn how to paint the subtle scales on a fish, the iridescence of a feather or the lustre on a shell.

The authors take you through the full range of skills and techniques you need to undertake natural history drawing and painting. Key techniques are explained with practical step-by-step demonstrations. Beautiful illustrations by the authors are featured throughout and will inspire you and illuminate the techniques you are learning.

Painting Nature's Details is a stunning book on an art form that is fast becoming the new botanical illustration.

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'I don't care if you tell me you'd never want to paint these yourself, just buy the book and marvel at what Rosie and Meriel have found'

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About Meriel Thurstan

Rosie Martin holds a Gold Medal from the RHS for her botanical watercolour painting. She is an elected member of the Society of Botanical Artists and teaches a variety of art-based subjects, including botanical illustration in both. She has worked in fashion, ballet and theatre; her clients have included David Bowie, Anthony Caro, Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Muir, for whom she produced textiles and interior design prints.Meriel Thurstan discovered botanical illustration while working at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. She later became a pivotal member of the Friends team at the Eden Project, organising and running talks, visits and courses. She holds a Silver Lindley medal from the RHS for her watercolours of fungi and a Bronze medal for an exhibit of different coloured potatoes. Meriel founded the South West Society of Botanical Artists in 2006, which aims to promote and encourage botanical art to the highest standard. Her own botanical paintings hang in England, France and Australia. She lives in Somerset.

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NGR9781849945455
9781849945455
1849945454
Painting Nature's Details by Meriel Thurstan
New
Paperback
Batsford Ltd
2019-07-04
144
N/A
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