Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor [Paperback]

Nice offers a large-format color exploration of the natural world in broad context. The forest scenes, the coral reef, and desert themes help create a substantial manual in an up-to-date format. If the budget is tight, Dover offers a reprint of Sy and Dorothea Barlow's Illustrating Nature (1997), which has a preponderance of black-and-white illustrations. But spring for Nice's volume if the budget allows.
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Anyone willing to learn can celebrate the wonder of nature with Claudia Nice's techniques for combining pen and ink with watercolor. Offering clear, step-by-step instruction for painting a range of subjects, she focuses on the little details first, from soil and leaves to wildflowers and birds. As artists are guided piece-by-piece through the wonders of different panoramic settings, they will learn to combine these elements into full-scale projects--quiet forest scenes, coral reefs teeming with color, prairies, deserts, ponds and mountains--all alive with the beauty and joy of nature.

Claudia Nice is a self-taught artist who has developed her realistic style by sketching from nature. Throughout her career, she has won numerous awards for her work and has shared her masterful techniques through her workshops and best-selling books. These titles include Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor, Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink and How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal. She lives in Sandy, Oregon.