How to Draw and Paint Fairies by
Linda Ravenscroft
 From
finding inspiration to capturing diaphanous detail, a step-by-step
guide to fairy-painting techniques. Drawing and painting fairies
is a delightful and eternally popular art form that poses
its own unique challenges: how do you paint an imaginary subject?
How can you capture the luminosity and tiny detail of a figure
that might fit in the palm of your hand?
This book explains the techniques to bring your fairy art
to life. It supplies the know-how and the skills in the form
of practical techniques, linework to trace, and constructional
drawings that clearly demonstrate how to form heads, faces,
and figures that are easy to copy.
For the beginner artist there's linework to copy and trace,
and then colour using whatever technique appeals. Easy-to-follow
constructional drawings reveal how to simplify shapes and
figures to create flower fairies, nymphs, and sprites; trace
a basic form, then complete your fairy however you wish. Learn
how to capture the grace and movement of fairy gestures; use
stippling and impressing to add texture to fabric and wings;
learn how to lay variegated washes and reserve highlights. |
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Paperback:
128 pages 