Learn to Paint Wildlife Quickly

Best-selling author Hazel Soan demonstrates how to paint a variety of wildlife.

Teacher and popular author Hazel Soan distills the key elements of painting a variety of wildlife, from garden favorites to exotic wild beasts. With easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step exercises, it has never been easier to capture the likeness of an animal, in your chosen medium, with a few quick strokes.

Chapters include “How to Paint Wildlife,” “Techniques for Speed,” “Animal Proportions,” “Pose,” “Surface Detail: Fur, Feathers, Hair, Hides, and Markings,” “Coloring,” “The Light,” “Background and Setting,” and “Back in the Studio.”

Like the other titles in the highly successful Learn to Paint Quickly series, this one is full of Hazel’s simple tips and beautiful paintings to help you to master the art of capturing animals—in watercolor, oils, pencils, or pastels—in no time at all.