Paint Realistic Animals in Acrylic with Lee Hammond

Discover the no-fear, all-fun way to paint family pets, barnyard animals, woodland critters and exotic creatures!

Lee Hammond has been a professional art instructor and artist for over 20 years. Lee has authored seventeen North Light books and has owned and operated the Midwest School of Art in Lenexa.

What do you get when you combine the ever-popular subject of animals, the user-friendly medium of acrylic, and the friendly, encouraging teaching style of Lee Hammond? A simple and fun way to start painting your favorite animals in a charming, realistic style! That's what you get from this book, Lee's friendly and encouraging style, acrylics and animals.

Even if you have no experience of painting, this book will show you that painting animals with acrylics is a piece of cake!

Animals highlighted in Paint Realistic Animals in Acrylic include cats, dogs, horses, goats, cows, rabbits, woodchucks, tigers, elephants, lions, turtles, snakes, iguanas, robins, swans, owls, cockatoos and squirrels.

This book is full of expert tips for painting animal eyes, mouths, noses and ears. Learn to make fur and feathers look remarkably real, and avoid common mistakes like "humanizing" eyes. You'll find an easy trick for making accurate drawings and color "recipes" for some of the most common fur tones.