 Drawing on Reserves
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BACK DOWN to earth next time you visit a reserve: leave the digital camera
at home and re-charge your batteries by plugging in to the world of nature.
In this practical guide to drawing wildlife, Richard Bell shows
how to keep things refreshingly simple when you set out with pen, sketchbook
and watercolours.
Ducks and Dragonflies . . . Flowers and Fruits . . . Landscapes
and Lichens . . .
Watercolours . . . sketchbooks . . . nature journals . . . art
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Drawing on Reserves; review by John Busby
In my childhood
I was first drawn to nature by ‘Romany’ on
Childrens’ Hour - sound pictures only - before television - but
they conjured up strong visual images in my mind’s eye. Children
begin to make pictures mostly from imagination, then gradually their
eyes become more curious about the real world. The act of drawing makes
us all look more closely, and as we draw, the marks on the page take
on a life of their own - they recall moments, feelings and discoveries,
and open our eyes to see more and more.
Richard is an explorer, another Nomad. His first book; Richard Bell’s
Britain touched on many unfamiliar parts of the British Isles. More recent
books narrow the field, from the High Peak of Derbyshire, down to a rough
patch of garden; always finding fascinating detail to delight in. The
latest booklet, Drawing on Reserves, recalls days at Fairburn Ings; RSPB & Yorkshire
Wildlife Trust reserves; Skokholm Island; Texas, and London’s Regent
Canal, and it is a book encouraging others to look and draw; with much
good advice about methods and materials, and how to keep a sketch-book
nature diary.
Drawing uses energy and experience: vital reserves that we draw on in
all creative looking.
John Busby is a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists
“Gardeners will love his book Rough Patch, "a sketchbook
from the wilder side of his garden." If you're like me, you'll read
it, and then want to start keeping a Nature Diary yourself --even if
you've never sketched before! If so, Drawing on Reserves, will
tell you how, in wonderfully down-to-earth terms.”
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Title: Drawing on Reserves
ISBN: 987-1-902467-17-7
Publication: May 2008
Author: Richard Bell
Size: 170mm x 120mm
Pages: 64pp;full colour watercolours, ink etc.
Binding: Paperback
Price: £4.99 |
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