Product Description

For many artists, evoking emotion and feeling is the ultimate goal of their work. Popular wildlife artist Lesley Harrison shows readers how to do just that in Painting Animals that Touch the Heart.

She covers everything from specific pastel painting techniques to choosing papers, reference materials and lighting. Another key component of the book is Harrison's strategy for identifying emotion in animals--the first critical step for a dramatic painting.

Readers will find a chapter dedicated to each of these popular animals:

-Big cats -Wolves -Horses -Dogs and cats -Baby animals (including a lion cub, gosling, bunny and otter pup)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268618 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

From Booklist
Popular artist Harrison has perfected her technique over decades of practice, achieving success in part because of the emotion she both brings to her work and evokes with her expressive animal portraits. She thoroughly explores painting techniques, materials, and lighting, then, dispelling the notion that animals lack feelings because they cannot speak, moves beyond technical considerations to help artists identify and convey animal emotions so that they're "telling their stories" in images rather than words. Many large, full-color plates with step-by-step instructions show examples of subjects such as big cats, wolves, horses, birds of prey, foxes, and dogs and cats, providing something for every artist and animal aficionado. Whitney Scott
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Customer Reviews

THOROUGHLY MEZMORISING
THIS BOOK WAS EVERYTHING I HAD HOPED FOR AND MORE. AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, ONE CANNOT FAIL TO BE TOUCHED BY THE BEAUTIFUL ARTWORKS DISPLAYED IN THIS BOOK. THIS BOOK IS AN INSPIRATION TO ME. I CAN NEVER HOPE TO HAVE THE TALENT THAT LESLEY HARRISON HAS BEEN GIFTED WITH. HOWEVER, I INTEND TO TRY SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK AND MAYBE I WILL ACHIEVE SOME BEAUTIFUL EFFECTS WHEN NEXT PAINTING ANIMALS

Wildllife artist
I purchased this book not knowing that it was all in pastel medium. However the paintings are so beautiful that I have got lots of ideas for expanding my own painting medium which is in oils.
This books would be treasured by any pastel artist.

painting animals that touch the heart
Beautiful pictures, I really enjoyed reading about the emotional content for painting the pictures and how she picked the photos to use.
Was hoping for more guidance on the technical aspects of using pastels on velour.