Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Featuring step-by-step instructions, this guide can help everyone from a complete novice to an expert artist experimenting with a new medium. Acclaimed artist and teacher Claudia Nice shows you how to combine pen and ink with watercolor to create stunning nature illustrations.

You'll feel like you're working alongside the author as she guides you through her trademark techniques in a clear, friendly voice. Nice focuses on first establishing a strong command of small details like soil, leaves, wildflowers and birds, before moving on to strategies for capturing a variety of panoramic settings, including quiet forest scenes, coral reefs, prairies, deserts, ponds and mountains.

By the time you finish this book, you will have learned to paint six varied ecosystems, combining smaller elements into full-scale projects, leaving you prepared to capture the joy and beauty of any natural landscape you might encounter.

Featuring easy step-by-step instructions, this guide teaches even the most novice artist how to combine pen and ink with watercolor to create stunning nature illustrations. Featuring a wide range of subjects, from leaves to wildflowers and birds, you'll learn to paint six ecosystems in total by combining smaller elements into full-scale projects.
Claudia Nice is a native of the Pacific Northwest and a self-taught artist, developing her realistic art style by sketching from nature. She is a multi-media artist, but prefers pen, ink and watercolor when working in the field. Claudia has been an art consultant and instructor for Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph, Grumbacher, and M. Graham paints. She has traveled across North America and internationally conducting workshops, seminars, and demonstrations at schools, clubs, shops, and trade shows. Her acrylics, watercolor, and ink drawings have won numerous awards and can be found in private collections across the continent. Claudia has authored 25 successful art instruction books and contributed to many other art books and magazines. She conducts workshop and retreats at her studio on Mt Hood, Oregon, at Brightwood Studio (www.brightwoodstudio.com). When not involved in her art career, Claudia enjoys gardening, hiking and discovering the wonders of nature in the Mt. Hood National Forest behind her home. Her favorite quote is If you can learn to see it with an artist eye, you can draw it.