No Excuses Watercolor Animals: A Field Guide to Painting

by Gina Rossi Armfield

Experience the freedom of watercolor painting and let go of fear!

You'll have no excuse not to paint when you follow Gina Rossi Armfield as she shares her intuitive and inspirational approach to sketching and painting animals.

Watercolor is the perfect medium for capturing the flowing textures, patterns and playful personalities of your favorite furry, feathered and farmyard friends. And it's fun using organic, sketchbook-style techniques to create soulful animal portraits. No intimidating exercises--just colorful and expressive works of art!

The animal field guide is divided into 3 sections--Paws, Claws and Hooves--with 15 different animal projects that each include a photo reference, color palette and sketch template.

Inside you'll find: Tricks for painting fur, feathers, beaks, claws, hooves and eyes Essential and easy paintbrush and watercolor instruction Guidance for working from photo reference Creative background and text overlay ideas

Genres: Art

128 pages, Paperback

Published November 29, 2016

Reviews

[Anna Ganey · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you're looking for a detailed instruction of how to paint a variety of animal's eyeballs then this is the book for you. If however from the cover, you thought you were going to be getting step by step instructions to paint different animals, then you would be very disappointed. A wide variety of animal "projects" in the book. Each project has a photograph of the animal, a color guide for what she used in each project, and step by step instructions...for the eye and only the eye. Poetry? Yes. Instructions on how to paint the nose? No. Quotes about the animal? Yes? Instructions on how to paint body? No. Fun facts about the animal? Yes? Instructions on how to paint the hoof/paw/claw? No. Her finished projects in watercolor that yours are supposed to somehow magically turn out like? Yes. She does include 2 pages at the beginning of the book to talk about painting furs and feathers, but it is extremely cursory and there are no instructions about the individual project. This is honestly wild work to title your book "Watercolor Animals" when the only instructions you provide are for eyeballs!

[Kristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although the art was truly gorgeous and there were a few great watercolor tips in the first chapter of the book, the drawing exercises were very repetetive and only showed a step-by-step on how to draw the eyes of different animals. I wouldn't call it an art book, because there was much more information about animals in general than on watercolor drawing.

[Lael Marsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

good, but only if you like the messy, mixed media style of the dog on the cover. I thought there would be more variation, but was disappointed.

[Mochacap · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow

This is the first of dozens of art books that I’ve read that I loved EVERY single page. Love it!

[Bethany · Rating 5 out of 5]

excited to try some of these techniques.