This easy-to-follow book teaches how to draw a wonderful variety of birds using very simple shapes and stage by stage sequences."Polly Pinder" includes a good selection of all the popular birds including a song thrush, robin, penguin, pelican, golden eagle and more.Absolute beginners will soon be able to create great drawings using these illustrations as a guide.This title includes a great variety of known and lesser known birds. It offers extremely simple step-by-step drawing methods. It is great for beginners or any artist wanting to brush up their drawing skills.

Author Biography

Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when it won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a book based on newly discovered eighteenth century wallpapers.