Features birds and flowers-both perennially favorite subjects-in bright colors and stunning settings. Fine artists, leisure painters, and decorative painters alike love author’s timeless and realistic style. Teaches all the basic skills from brush loading and blending to creating shape and texture. The follow up to the bestselling Painting Garden Birds, this book is aimed at beginning oil painters but contains vivid examples that will attract even the most advanced artists. Master decorative painter Sherry C. Nelson provides 15 step-by-step projects, each highlighting a specific feature of the songbird, a variety of poses, and tips on capturing the flowers and foliage unique to the bird’s habitat. Included are everyone’s most beloved songbirds: blue jays, sparrows, doves, and more-all accented with lady bugs, butterflies, and other cute insects."