Bird Anatomy for Artists
Bird Anatomy for Artists

Author: Natalia Balo

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780987337313

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This informative textbook for artists and bird lovers is a comprehensive survey of the complete bird from head to tail. The book is full of masterly illustrations that are clear and easy to understand, including black and white working drawings, examples of the artist's field studies and exquisite colour illustrations. Every part of the bird's body is outlined in detail with informative text and helpful drawing instructions. Bird Anatomy for Artists is a published version of the Dr Natalia Balo PhD research in Natural History Illustration. The book was created in consultation with prominent ornithologists from Australian Museum, Sydney, and opens with a foreword by the famous Australian writer and ornithologist Dr. Penny Olsen. Second revised edition 2019.

A Masterclass in Drawing and Painting Animals
A Masterclass in Drawing and Painting Animals

Author: Jonathan Truss

Publisher: Lorenz Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780754820598

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"Learn to produce beautiful studies of animals, observing the behavior, movement, textures and spirit that make each creature a unique subject."--Amazon.

Voysey's Birds and Animals
Voysey's Birds and Animals

Author: Karen Livingstone

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500480605

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An elegant and informative gift book devoted to designs by C. F. A. Voysey that incorporate birds, animals, and plants. Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most enduringly popular designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement. A practicing architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics, and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles, and fabrics. His pattern designs, created from the 1880s to the early 1930s, are among his best- known works today. His wallpaper and textile designs are characterized by simple, stylized, rhythmic patterns that base their motifs on forms found in the natural world. Plants abound, but so too do birds and animals, represented as silhouettes or in soft pastel shades. This elegant, accessibly priced volume offers a wealth of colorful designs by Voysey in which birds and animals are the principal motifs. Written by Karen Livingstone, a published expert on Voysey and the Arts and Crafts Movement, this book brings together not only completed patterns but also working drawings in pencil and watercolor. Voysey’s Birds and Animals will both inform and delight, appealing to a broad readership of museum visitors and lovers of art and design.

Speculative Taxidermy
Speculative Taxidermy

Author: Giovanni Aloi

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0231543212

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Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art, culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of addressing climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly questions past and present ideas of human separation from the animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, and Cole Swanson, Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.

The Book of the Bird
The Book of the Bird

Author: Angus Hyland

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780677507

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The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.

Birds and Animals in Mughal Miniature Paintings
Birds and Animals in Mughal Miniature Paintings

Author: Zaheda Khanam

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788124604854

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The depiction of flora and fauna has been an intrinsic part of Indian painting traditions. The Mughals in their turn, in their fascinating paintings, used the bird and animal imagery to lend a special quality to their art of painting. This book, with over 70 illustrations, is a survey of the birds and animals used in Mughal paintings, especially during the reigns of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir. With historical details, it shows that the depiction of various kinds of birds and animals played a significant role in conformity with the context or the demands of the narratives. The artists painted both wild and domestic animals with equal competence. Outlining the differences in the paintings under the Mughal rulers themselves with regard to depiction of fauna, it notes that while Akbar was interested in historical, mythological or anecdotal events, Jahangir introduced album paintings and evinced interest in individual portrait studies of fauna. In all, it showcases the meticulous depiction of fauna in Mughal art and its persevering beauty. It mentions the names of a host of artists who executed the paintings and the many illustrated manuscripts mythological, historical and on popular fables that saw lavish use of paintings with faunal imagery. The book will interest historians especially those studying art history of the medieval period.

Animal Drawing
Animal Drawing

Author: Charles Knight

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0486318737

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A master of animal portraiture presents an extensive course in creating lifelike drawings of wild and domestic creatures. Subjects include animal musculature, bone structure, psychology, movements, habits, and habitats. 123 illustrations.

Painting Wildlife & Birds
Painting Wildlife & Birds

Author: Willow Wolfe

Publisher: All American Crafts Publishing

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780978951399

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If you love the beauty of nature and wish you could paint the birds, animals, and flowers you see, this is the book for you. Willow Wolfe has a gift for painting and teaching the wonders of the natural world, and shares her techniques in a step-by-step format even the beginner can enjoy. Enjoy 17 magical projects as you learn to place sparkling highlights and deep, rich shadows. Willow shows simple ways to ehance your work with dimensional effects, stenciling, and collage. An experienced teacher as well as a talented artist, Willow Wolfe is an inspiring guide for your adventure in painting the natural world.

Ann Craven: Animals, Birds, Flowers, Moons
Ann Craven: Animals, Birds, Flowers, Moons

Author:

Publisher: Karma, New York

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781949172607

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A panorama of painterly motifs, combined and reprised Ann Craven (born 1972) superimposes source photographs, historical works and her own paintings, creating mediated images that feature layer upon layer of referentiality--a collage of her most treasured curios. Peacocks showcase their plumage; birds perch on a branch; a trio of horses pose "just so." Through these acts of creation and recreation, Craven becomes both master and copyist, citing herself in her own art historical lineage. Animals, birds, flowers, moons: Craven's motifs are in themselves an incantation--a wish to repeat, reencounter, relive. In keeping with this process of revisitation, Craven's paintings are repeated in threes throughout this fully illustrated catalog, mimicking the tripartite structure of her Animals Birds Flowers Moonsexhibition. The book is divided into three parts, each paired with one of three texts: two newly commissioned essays by Durga Chew-Bose and Keith Mayerson, and a 2021 interview between Craven and Lois Dodd.