Artist's Photo Reference - Wildlife

by Bart Rulon

Overview

Capturing the details is what makes wildlife painting come alive. Getting the fur, facial features and anatomy right with subjects that refuse to stand still adds to the challenge.

Artist's Photo Reference: Wildlife saves the day by allowing you to concentrate on what's important - creating great art.

Artist and photographer Bart Rulon provides hundreds of gorgeous full-color images showcasing nearly four dozen animals from a variety of angles. Each one has been taken with the needs of the artist in mind, ensuring that you save time, effort, money and worry. Stop wasting hours combing through endless magazines and books. You'll find all the high-quality reference photos you need right here!

Rulon also provides guidelines for taking your own reference photos, plus five demonstrations in a variety of media, that illustrate how professional wildlife artists create extraordinary works of art by painting from photographs.

Wildlife is the perfect addition to your reference library! Use it to save time, get inspired and create beautiful art of your own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440322730
Publisher:	F+W Media
Publication date:	12/15/2006
Series:	Artist's Photo Reference
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	39 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Bart Rulon is a wildlife and landscape artists, and an experienced wildlife photographer. His work has been featured at shows around the world, including The Society of Animal Artists and Arts for the Parks.

Table of Contents

Introduction     8
How to Use This Book     9
Taking Your Own Reference Photos     10
Hooved Mammals     14
White-Tailed Deer
Mule Deer
Black-Tailed Deer
Caribou
Elk
Step-by-Step Demonstration: Elk in Acrylic
Moose
Bison
Mountain Goat
Pronghorn
Bighorn Sheep
Dall's Sheep
Predators     42
Brown Bear (Grizzly Bear)
Black Bear
Gray Wolf
Coyote
Red Fox
Bobcat
Cougar
Step-by-Step Demonstration: Cougar in Oil
Small Mammals     64
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Townsend's Chipmunk
Raccoon
Fisher
Eastern Cottontail
Step-by-Step Demonstration: Cottontail in Mixed Media
Aquatic Wildlife     80
American Alligator
Killer Whale (Orca)
California Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
Northern Elephant Seal
Sea Otter
Step-by-Step Demonstration: Sea Otters in Acrylic
River Otter
Wildlife of Africa     100
Lion
Leopard
Cheetah
Giraffe
African Elephant
Cape Buffalo
White Rhinoceros
Hippopotamus
Plains Zebra (Burchell's Zebra)
Impala
Wildlife of India     122
Tiger
Step-by-Step Demonstration: Tiger in Watercolor
Asian Elephant
Spotted Deer (Chital)
Swamp Deer (Barasingha)
Sambar
Gaur (Indian Bison)
Rhesus Macaque
Hanuman Langur
Contributing Artists     140
Bibliography     141
Index     142

Editorial Reviews

North Light Books adds another thoroughly appealing book to its series of photo reference guides for artists. Rulon has already published guides in this series to birds and to water and skies, while Gary Greene has given us flowers as well as buildings and barns. Rulon's latest features hundreds of photographs of animals most artists will only see in a zoo: bison, elk, caribou, cougars, bears, alligators, seals, whales, cheetahs, lions, elephants, and monkeys. Also included are meals for the big animals, such as fishers, raccoons, and rabbits. Each animal is seen from several angles and in its natural habitat. Painting Wildlife with John Seerey-Lester is a logical companion to Rulon's book. Here, top wildlife artist Seerey-Lester begins by demonstrating how to re-create fur, feathers, and eyes. Writing for advanced artists, he focuses more on larger matters-painting habitat, atmosphere, and light. The result is a worthy addition to the genre, especially for its broad use of media, including oil, acrylic, and charcoal. For the most serious of wildlife artists, see Kalon and Brook McClintic Baughan's Painting the Faces of Wildlife. The Baughans will get your patrons out of the library and into the wilderness to build a floating blind, from which they can paint directly or take their own wilderness photographs. All three books are recommended. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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