The Birds Coloring Book: Hardback Gift Edition (Hardback Vintage Coloring) - Hardcover

Gray, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1398826006 ISBN 13: 9781398826007

Publisher: Sirius Entertainment, 2023

Synopsis

This delightful coloring book includes spectacular bird illustrations based on the artwork of Audubon and other classic ornithology illustrators, presented in an attractive hardback gift edition with patterned endpapers.

Whether you are a bird-lover, an artist, or both, this delightful coloring book is sure to please. It features over 70 classic full-color ornithology illustrations from the likes of John James Audubon, John T Bowen and John Gerrard Keulemans to use as reference, placed beside black and white line drawings ready for the addition of color.

Included here are bright songbirds and majestic birds of prey, as well as favorites such as the jewel-like kingfisher and the flamboyant flamingo. Their delicate, vivid plumage makes birds ideal subject matter for developing color technique and rendering those illustrations is guaranteed to provide hours of pleasure. An index of birds is included, to help you identify each species and find your favorites.

- Includes 77 designs
- Printed on thick, high-quality paper
- Original full-color illustrations included for easy reference
- This hardback edition makes a wonderful gift.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Hardback Vintage Coloring series will transport you to a world of vintage charm and nostalgia. These delightful coloring books feature original, full-color illustrations by classic artists and designers along with black and white line versions for you to color in.

About this title

About the Authors

Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world.Since graduating from Loughborough College of Art and Design with a specialist degree in illustration, Peter Gray has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical, for UK publishers Penguin Longman and Oxford University Press and Ernst Klett in Germany. Outside book publishing, Peter has worked on storyboards and costume design for the film industry, most recently on Oliver Stone's blockbuster Alexander, and regularly contributes illustrations to national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times) and magazines (The Spectator, Readers' Digest). He lives in Suffolk, UK.

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was born in Haiti and raised in France, emigrating to North America when he was 18 years old to avoid conscription into the Napoleonic wars. For many years he worked as a trading merchant, before turning to his true passion: ornithology. Audubon spent many years traveling the North American continent, identifying and recording bird species. The Birds of America was an immediate success, with Audubon becoming a household name in the nineteenth century. It is still considered to be one of the greatest works of ornithology ever created.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398826006
• ISBN 13: 9781398826007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Audubon John James, Bowen John T, Keulemans John Gerrard
• Number of pages: 160