How to Draw and Paint Fairies by Linda Ravenscroft

How to Draw and Paint Fairies

From Finding Inspiration to Capturing Diaphanous Detail

A Step-By-Step Guide to Fairy Art

by Linda Ravenscroft

Hinkler Books, 2005, ISBN 9781741572377, colour photographs and illustrations throughout, colour illustrated frontispiece, paperback with wraps

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges, no inscriptions, mark to half title page, minor marking to cover (see photographs)

“This book will help you on your way to becoming a fairy artist and suggest sources of inspiration for your work.  The first chapter offers advice on suitable drawing and painting materials and introduces you to basic colour theory.  With those basics in place, the second chapter teaches you how to draw faces and figures, clothing, hair and wings, and is interspersed with invaluable “swipe files” containing numerous examples of these items for you to copy or trace.  The third chapter is devoted to exciting techniques to help you get the most form mediums such as watercolours, acrylics, pastels, and coloured pencils, and each one is illustrated with step-by-step demonstrations taking you through to beautiful, finished images.
Finally the fourth chapter introduces you to different categories of fairies by way of a gallery of images by well-known artists…”