Drawing and Painting Animals

Trudy Friend's innovative approach highlights common problems and simple solutions to create more effective drawings and paintings. Clearly annotated pictures and easy-to-follow technique demonstrations ensure that problems can be quickly corrected.

Drawing and Painting Animals covers a wide range of popular animals including farm animals, wild animals, birds, reptiles and insects. The techniques demonstrated throughout are applicable to watercolour, graphite pencil, charcoal, Conte, pastels, acrylic and gouache.

- Introduction
- Materials

Techniques
- Mixing Colour
- Textures
- Line
- Form
- Tone
- Heads and Features
- Feet
- Movement
- Body Mass
- Exercise in Accuracy
- With an Artist's Eye

Theme 1: Domestic Pets
- Dog
- Cat
- Rabbit
- Guinea Pig
- Mouse
- Shetland Pony

Theme 2: Farm Animals
- Cow
- Pig
- Goat
- Sheep
- Horse
- Chicken
- Duck

Theme 3: Zoo Animals
- Elephant
- Rhinoceros
- Giraffe
- Zebra

Theme 4: Wild Animals
- Fox
- Badger
- Otter
- Beaver
- Grey Squirrel
- Wolf
- Deer
- Bear

Theme 5: Birds, Reptiles and Insects
- Eagle
- Parrot
- Penguin
- Swan
- Toad
- Crocodile
- Butterfly
- Grasshopper

Index