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Nature's Portraits: A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings
When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildlife artist Peggy Macnamara has been recreating the natural world through her drawings and paintings for decades, and, with Nature’s Portraits, she invites the rest of the world to join her.

Nature’s Portraits offers sixty of Macnamara’s detailed drawings that can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored pencils or crayons and a sense of wonder about the world around us. Many of the drawings depict animals as they might appear in their natural habitats—like a tree frog, a dashing, playful fox, a snowy owl poised for flight, a sauntering jaguar, and a watchful herd of giraffe. These wild furry and feathered friends are joined by animals found in museums, including Sue, the Field Museum’s resident Tyrannosaurus rex. Each illustration is captioned with a brief scientific description of the species pictured.

Combining inspiration from natural history with a calming, creative activity, Nature’s Portraits encourages us to take a closer look at what we miss when we don’t take the time to stop and look with deep appreciation at the bounty of the natural world around us.
 
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Nature's Portraits: A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings
When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildlife artist Peggy Macnamara has been recreating the natural world through her drawings and paintings for decades, and, with Nature’s Portraits, she invites the rest of the world to join her.

Nature’s Portraits offers sixty of Macnamara’s detailed drawings that can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored pencils or crayons and a sense of wonder about the world around us. Many of the drawings depict animals as they might appear in their natural habitats—like a tree frog, a dashing, playful fox, a snowy owl poised for flight, a sauntering jaguar, and a watchful herd of giraffe. These wild furry and feathered friends are joined by animals found in museums, including Sue, the Field Museum’s resident Tyrannosaurus rex. Each illustration is captioned with a brief scientific description of the species pictured.

Combining inspiration from natural history with a calming, creative activity, Nature’s Portraits encourages us to take a closer look at what we miss when we don’t take the time to stop and look with deep appreciation at the bounty of the natural world around us.
 
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Nature's Portraits: A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

Nature's Portraits: A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

by Peggy Macnamara
Nature's Portraits: A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

Nature's Portraits: A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

by Peggy Macnamara

Overview

When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildlife artist Peggy Macnamara has been recreating the natural world through her drawings and paintings for decades, and, with Nature’s Portraits, she invites the rest of the world to join her.

Nature’s Portraits offers sixty of Macnamara’s detailed drawings that can be brought brilliantly to life with nothing more than a few colored pencils or crayons and a sense of wonder about the world around us. Many of the drawings depict animals as they might appear in their natural habitats—like a tree frog, a dashing, playful fox, a snowy owl poised for flight, a sauntering jaguar, and a watchful herd of giraffe. These wild furry and feathered friends are joined by animals found in museums, including Sue, the Field Museum’s resident Tyrannosaurus rex. Each illustration is captioned with a brief scientific description of the species pictured.

Combining inspiration from natural history with a calming, creative activity, Nature’s Portraits encourages us to take a closer look at what we miss when we don’t take the time to stop and look with deep appreciation at the bounty of the natural world around us.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226431550
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 09/09/2016
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Peggy Macnamara is artist-in-residence at the Field Museum and an adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of several books published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Prologue

1. A Bonfire

2. From Belcourt to Hydra

3. A First Try

4. The Novel He Didn’t Know He Was Writing

5. A Reporter on the Beat

6. Any Person Condemned to Death Shall Have His Head Cut Off

7. The Absurd

8. A First Chapter

9. What He Carried

10. Writing Part I

11. Already Traced within Me

12. Exodus

13. Rue d’Arzew

14. A Jealous Teacher and a Generous Comrade

15. Resolve

16. The Malraux Factor

17. A Reader’s Report

18. Gallimard’s War

19. The Stranger Is Born

20. Recovery

21. From the Absurd to Revolt

22. Above Ground

23. Existentialist Twins

24. Consecration in New York 

25. A Book for Everyone

26. What’s in a Name?

Epilogue: L’Écho d’Oran

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography for The Stranger

Index
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