John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves. Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding...

Hailed as a sumptuously produced and finely illustrated outstanding contribution to ancient Egyptian studies, this facsimile reprint of Patrick Houlihan's 1986 comprehensive study makes a welcome return in the Oxbow Classics in Egyptology series. Animals of all kinds are amply illustrated in Egyptian art, none more so than birds, in both secular and religious contexts and in hieroglyphic scripts. A great variety of bird species has for millennia...

Through detailed step-by-step instructions illustrated by full-color diagrams and photos, readers can practice origami and create a cute owl, an adorable duck, an elegant peacock, and other birds. The book also includes an introduction to the types of paper one can use and the kinds of paper to avoid, a key explaining the different symbols, a glossary, a further reading section with books and websites, and an index.

Describes techniques used to draw birds with colored pencils and offers instructions for drawing twelve different species, including robins, cactus wrens, and others.

From budgies to owls to peacocks, these projects by talented designers include soft sculptures, quilts, ornaments, and more.