{"product_id":"bird-life-and-the-painter","title":"Bird Life and the Painter","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery good used hardcover in un-clipped jacket. A touch loose in the binding. A few chips to jacket, in mylar protected cover. First edition, first printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eR. B. Talbot Kelly, at present Art Master at Rugby School, is probably one of today's greatest and most sympathetic painters of birds and has, through long and close study, acquired what he would term \"some fraction of understanding of a bird's way of life.\" His experience transcends a mere knowledge of anatomy and habitat, or the superficial appeal of colourful plumage, and has given him a feeling for a bird's reactions to its own world; a feeling which can be sensed in the subtle qualities of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The craftmanship needed to paint birds,\" he says, \"is no different from that required for a landscape or figure composition, but the thinking which precedes the making of a work of art is special to each attempt.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo promote such thinking is the object of this book. It has also been designed to equip the student of bird life with the means for extracting the fullest experience and delight from a subject of tremendous vitality. The many fine reproductions of the author's paintings, of which 16 are in colour, are masterpieces of delicacy and sensitive perception in a variety of treatments. This book will appeal as much to the birdwatcher and nature students as to the painter of birds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Studio Publication","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53321115009331,"sku":"RG3055U","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0888\/4515\/6659\/files\/bird-life-and-the-painter.jpg?v=1777922955","url":"https:\/\/buteobooks.com\/products\/bird-life-and-the-painter","provider":"Buteo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}