Birds (Drawing in Color)

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Summary: Love Lee's artwork
Review: Another fabulous book by Lee Hammond. I like her style, not only does she instruct, but she shows you how the work looks completed using different types of colored pencils which is great. Great job. I also have some of her other colored pencils books and love them all.

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Summary: Love Lee's artwork
Review: Another fabulous book by Lee Hammond. I like her style, not only does she instruct, but she shows you how the work looks completed using different types of colored pencils which is great. Great job. I also have some of her other colored pencils books and love them all.

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Summary: Great book for beginners
Review: I'm a loyal fan of Lee Hammond b/c her graphite drawing series helped me out a lot when I was 11 and 12, made me learn how to draw and also the importance of good supplies. (There's a big difference between sketch pads and artist's paper when you're doing fine art!).
Her Drawing in Color books are also good, but I can't recommend them as highly as her graphite books. I would recommend these for beginners, though. One downside to this series and the graphite one is, if you buy one, you've botten them all, technique wise. The only difference is subject matter. Lee Hammond's preferred medium is graphite, and though her colored pencil book is good, her master of the medium is not as good as graphite.
I would recommend in addition to any of this series, Ann Kullberg's books (wonderful!) and Colored Pencil Solutions. Also if you want to jazz up colored pencil, I recommend the following: Colored Pencil Explorations, Create Radiant Realism in Watercolor, Ink, and Colored Pencil, and Gary's Greene's books for using solvents.

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Summary: Excellent drawings
Review: The drawings and the use of colored pencils is awesome. However, She does not explain how to draw the bird, or how to apply the colors. There are some examples shown, but not for the blue bird, or cardinal. You have to figure it out on your own how to apply the colors for these.