Friday, March 11, 2011

Amazing Crayon Drawing With Lee Hammond

Amazing Crayon Drawing With Lee Hammond: Create Lifelike Portraits, Pets, Landscapes and More



Author: Lee Hammond

ISBN: 978-1440308109

Publisher: North Light Books


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Amazing Crayon Drawing with Lee Hammond is truly amazing! I was in complete awe studying every illustration in this book. Lee Hammond is extraordinary talented yet humble enough to share her techniques and what works best for her.


In this book best-selling author Lee Hammond demonstrates how to create realistic drawings using wax crayons. Magnificent drawings I might add. With Hammond's easy step-by-step drawing guide, you will learn how to create lifelike landscapes, animals, people, flowers and many more.


You will discover how to create brilliant color and burnishing techniques, along with simple blending and layering skills. Each colorful page is very fascinating to look at and simple to comprehend. Lee obviously took her time to break up each demonstration in an easy to follow format.


Hammond touches base on graphing and how to use a grid to achieve that true-to-life masterwork. The plastic grid in the back of the book is a big plus and very helpful.

Amazing Crayon Drawing with Lee Hammond is an awesome learning tool for those who yearn to create vivid imagery. Regardless of any age I can assure you, you will find this book captivating and very inspirational. It's unbelievable the masterpieces you can create with a simple medium such as a crayon.


Crayons, they're not just for kids anymore.


Remarkable! Two big thumbs up.

Reviewed by Martha Ramirez of Bookpleasures


Lee Hammond, author of Amazing Crayon Drawing With Lee Hammond: Create Lifelike Portraits, Pets, Landscapes and More, has been a professional illustrator and instructor for more than 30 years. She has been an author for North Light Books since 1994 and has published over twenty titles.


She is a certified police composite artist and is on call for the Kansas City Metro Area police departments as well as TV's America's Most Wanted.


She has illustrated many of the NASCAR drivers, selling prints on QVC and NASCAR and on her website. Many of her art creations can be purchased from her online art gallery. She continues to add new art on a regular basis.


Lee's passion is and always will be teaching, and she currently teaches workshops full time nationally and internationally. She divides her time between Kansas City and Naples, Florida.


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1 comment:

Sheri Fredricks said...

This would outshine some of my other coffee table books I have. I can't wait to get it!