Name: The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds
SKU: 9095078
Price: 417.00 ZAR
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Author: John Muir Laws
ISBN: 9781597141956

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Muir Laws

Publisher

Heyday Books

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

27.7x21.3x1 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN

159714195x

ISBN13

9781597141956

Synopsis "The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds "

John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves.Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding of the bird's skeletal structure. To pose this skeleton, you must be able to perceive the energy, intention, and life of the bird."This how-to guide will perfect the technique of serious artists but also, perhaps more importantly, it will provide guidance for those who insist they can't draw. Leading the mind and hand through a series of detailed exercises, Laws delivers what he promises: that "drawing birds opens you to the beauty of the world." An Audubon Book.

John Muir Laws

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John Muir Laws is a naturalist, educator, and artist. He holds a degree in conservation and resource studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and in wildlife biology from the University of Montana, Missoula, as well as being certified in scientific illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is an Audubon TogetherGreen fellow and a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences. He is the author of The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, and Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide.

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