Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

<h3>Capture Nature's Beauty with Simple Step-by-Step Instructions</h3><p>Featuring step-by-step instructions this guide can help everyone from a complete novice to an expert artist experimenting with a new medium. Acclaimed artist and teacher Claudia Nice shows you how to combine pen and ink with watercolor to create stunning nature illustrations.</p><p>You'll feel like you're working alongside the author as she guides you through her trademark techniques in a clear friendly voice. Nice focuses on first establishing a strong command of small details like soil leaves wildflowers and birds before moving on to strategies for capturing a variety of panoramic settings including quiet forest scenes coral reefs prairies deserts ponds and mountains. </p><p>By the time you finish this book you will have learned to paint six varied ecosystems combining smaller elements into full-scale projects leaving you prepared to capture the joy and beauty of any natural landscape you might encounter.</p><p>This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1635610737).</p>