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Listen to the call of the wild!Bring home the excitement and wonder of exotic creatures from all over the world with Painting Zoo Animals on Rocks. Renowned artist Lin Wellford gives easy-to-follow directions for creating your very own rock menagerie.You'll learn everything you need to know to paint the mane of a majestic lion or the dramatic black and white stripes of a zebra. Each of the 11 projects includes patterns, step-by-step photos, and tips for choosing the best rock. Simple techniques help you achieve amazingly realistic details, from the brightly colored feathers of a toucan to the baggy skin of an elephant.Also in this book, Lin will show you her special technique for combining rocks to create animals with even more dimension. In just a few easy steps you can create a long, graceful neck for a giraffe or the curved trunk of an elephant.You'll also find beloved petting zoo critters, including a fuzzy baby chick, a playful piglet, and a cuddly lamb. With Lin Wellford, painting your own special zoo is as easy as picking up a rock.
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: North Light Books (April 14, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1581804652
ISBN-13: 978-1581804652
Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
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I have had such a good time with this book. My daughter is a kindergarten teacher and is wanting some African animals so that the kids can learn more about them. We chose 5 of the animals.The author gives excellent detail instructions on each animal, including how to choose your rock and its form. I am NOT an artist at all, but my rocks were transformed into wonderful elephant, gariffe, baboon with a baby, zebra and a male lion with quite a mane. I highly recommend this book if you want to get into painting.
This is a fun, imagination inspiring guide for those of us who never pass a river rock without "seeing" a new creature waiting for a dab of life-giving paint. It's a step above beginner, and demonstrates how to use mediums to put rocks together to add dimension to your creations.
I'm very satisfied with the books i've bought.They are very instructive and complete.They teach the reader to paint rocks step by step, allowing consisting apprenticeship.
Always loved painting but retired from it at 70 yrs but was bored this winter. Looked for some of the books I had given away and found it on and then this one popped up. Am in AZ and at a park with an abundance of River-bed stones so have been painting my heart out.
These would make breathtaking garden ornaments, so much better than the resin animals you see in garden centres.In this well illustrated work the author gives clear step by step instructions from selecting the shape of rock for each project, then how to sketch on the shape of the animal and paint it in.As well as wild animals (chimps, gorillas, bears, elephants, giraffes -you have to tweak your rock a bit to create a neck on those!- and much more) there's also a section on a children's zoo. Here there's cute designs for a lamb, hedgehog, and GORGEOUS hen and her chicks, one just hatching out of its shell.I'd like a garden full of these!
This book (as well as Lin Wellford's other "Painting on Rocks") is the master of its genre, all other books I've seen have been small in detail, depth, and variety in comparison to this one. While it does follow the standard "Step 1...", "Step 2..." style of direction, i.e. learning by direct imitation, Lin Wellford also goes into variations and shows pictoral samples of alternate versions of her works. In fact, you could probably buy just one of her books and have all the knowledge necessary to create an indefinite amount of other animals and objects on rocks as long as you had the inspiration. For those of us who like to imitate some (all) of the time, directly following her step-by-step instructions is great, particularly considering how many different types of animals are included.In "Painting Animals on Rocks", there are step by step instructions listed for:- Lion- Hippo- Bear (Polar)- Monkey / Primate- Bird / Toucan- Zebra- Elephant- Giraffe (with some great instructions on wood-filler neck extensions)(Petting Zoo Section)- Chicken & Chicks- Pig- Sheep / LambThe initial how-to instructions, materials list, and helpful hints at the beginning of the book have also been updated compared to Lin's previous works. In fact, I'd argue that this introductory section is the best of all Lin Wellford's rock painting books. If you're only interested in purchasing a single rock painting book (and aren't concerned that all of the patterns involve wild animals), this is a good choice.
Rock painting is so fun and she guides you step by step on how to get the cute little creatures on your rocks.Warning...It's addicting! :)
After breezing through Wellford's other books, this non-artist could not resist the zoo animal projects. As expected, the step-by-step instructions were clear, concise, easy to understand, and littered with descriptive pictures. This is my least favorite book in her series because some of the animals require use of glue/filler or don't cover the whole rock (leaving black spaces between the legs). I still give it five stars because in and of itself, the book is fantastic! I painted a polar bear that blows me away because there is no way in the world I would have been able to paint a single paw on my own, but Wellford's directions are fool-proof. I'm not ready to attempt the alternate variations of projects briefly described for the more-advanced artists, but maybe with a little more practice... If there is at least one animal in the book you'd like to paint, buy it without hesitation.
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