Drawing and Painting Animals with Expression

I feel this book is okay. But that's about it. I've now had to buy more books from other authors as I feel this book doesn't cover what I was looking for (I'm looking to improve my animal watercolour techniques, this is perhaps not the right book for that). While there are some handy tips, I felt the book was lacking in sufficient detail or demonstrations on how to actually achieve 'animals with expression' - for watercolour anyway. The book is filled up with oversized images of the artists art - which look lovely, but it's a shame as I feel it would be more helpful if there was more informative text about techniques, and less huge images. I feel the descriptions on techniques and how she achieves the finished look are not detailed enough. For example, I really wanted to nail doing eyes really well. The only full description is how to do this in pastels. However, on balance there are some things I like about this book- it does have some handy tips, and I think if you are using pencils/ pastels or painting in oils then it will be much more useful for you than it has for me.

I bought this book as a gift (sadly, my artistic talents are minimal); but, upon its arrival, the book looked do splendid that I couldn't resist taking a quick look at it. Over an hour later (and an appointment almost missed as a result) I was forced to put it down. It is totally entrancing!Large in format, full of beautiful colour plates, packed full of practical tips (several of a safety nature I was totally unaware of) and with the sort of careful instruction that only the combination of a qualified teacher and practising artist could provide.The examples furnished by the artist herself, from her own repertoire, are stunning and reason enough to purchase this book - even if you don't intend to embark on producing your own masterpieces.However, having now read the whole book (I will have to buy another for my friend!) even I am inspired to have a go and intend to start by attempting to sketch my granddaughter's kitten.I wholeheartedly recommend this book and feel convinced that it will not disappoint.

I knew her work via oracle cards, and they looks amazing and uplifting, so ordered the book for my dad who is a sculptor and painter. The book is beautiful, perfectly illustrates ideas and technique, and full of cute pictures of animals, would buy it any time. Hope there will be a release of other topic such as flowers, or angels, and also in different language. The whole world deserve to see these 🥰

Recommended - lots of inspiration here and much better than some other books on this subject. Doesn't waste too many pages telling you what equipment you need, which by the time you get this far should be acquired knowledge anyway. I tend to prefer art books featuring a variety of different artists' work but I was agreeably surprised by the standard of Marjolein's work. She's a good artist and I like the book.Possibly a feline leaning, though many different animals too. Happy to have it on my shelf.

What an absolutely beautiful book, really well thought out and has so many techniques to follow and tips to help me paint my animals.Really lovely quality paper in this book tooI will be using it a lot that’s for sureThank you