Wildlife Designs: Original Patterns for Your Favorite Craft

Capture the Beauty of Nature and Translate It to Your Favorite Craft!

Whether it's the majesty of a buck, the cheekiness of a raccoon, or the peaceful appeal of a loon, images of wildlife are universally appealing to artists and crafters, but it can be a challenge to translate the animation and beauty of nature to your favorite medium. The difficulty can lie in properly illustrating your subject, making a working pattern, or adding the proper tone to make the scene come alive.

In Wildlife Designs, award-winning artist Sue Walters eliminates these challenges by offering 30 dynamic North American wildlife designs -- each beautifully drawn with line and tonal patterns -- and 10 border designs. Whether you're a novice exploring a new craft or an experienced artisan working in your favorite medium, these unique designs and easy-to-follow instructions will guide you through the process of creating realistic or stylized images of wildlife.

Each design is applicable to a vast range of arts and crafts, including:

- Pyrography - Stamping - Engraving - Stained Glass - Scrolling - Relief Carving - Quilting - Tole Painting

If you're an artist with a love of nature and animals, Wildlife Designs will make it easy for you to create vibrant and attractive images of wildlife in your favorite craft - or inspire you to broaden your artistic horizons by exploring a whole new medium.

Author: Sue Walters
ISBN: 1-56523-295-X
Pages: 112
Size: 8.5 X 11