This title helps you build up your skills from basic brush strokes to more expressive styles. It provides stunning illustrations of animals with easy-to-follow instructions, from cats and squirrels to elephants, tigers and pandas. It offers full details on materials and equipment. This is a complete guide to painting animals in the Chinese non-outline style of brush painting, a popular subject in a successful series by the same author. With full instructions on materials and equipment as well as basic techniques, the book contains stunning illustrations of 50 animals, including cats, pandas, birds, horses, elephants, tigers and gorillas. Many of the illustrations have full step-by-step instructions. The author covers most of the existing popular styles of Chinese non-outline animal painting, from the simple outline sketch approach to more advanced expressive styles. For animal painting, Chinese masters use basic brushstrokes to build up more advanced and stunning effects. The author guides her readers to think like masters. They will go through an exciting journey, starting as beginners using only basic techniques to develop gradually more complex skills.
