Classic Sketchbook: Cats

Classic Sketchbook: Catsshows how its done by showingmuseum-quality works, then coaching you to try the techniques with the help an experts suggestions. Whether scribbling out a quick sketch with minimal detail, or making a finished portrait where every silky hair and polished whisker stands out, the best cat artists can capture the very essence of feline-ness. How do they do it? Firsthand observation of cats will tell you a lot about the way they sit, yawn, tweak their tails, and curl up to sleep, but it wont tell you how to get those things down on paper.Classic Sketchbook: Cats is the second in a series of instructional books that began with Classic Sketchbook: Botanicals. The series shows how to draw your subjects by looking at the details of museum-quality works, then coaching youthrough the techniques with the help an experts suggestions. In this case the expert is Patricia Wynne, a notedillustrator with a specialty in animals.Wynne will guide you throughfur, paws, and eyes, as well ascats sleeping, playing, or pouncing. Her unique instructions places aclose-up of a drawing or painting by a notedartist likeGauguin, Chardin, Gwen John, and Theodore Steinlen on the left side of the page. And on the right side of thepage Patricia Wynne coaches youwith detailed, step-by-step drawings, thatilluminate the process.