As your mind conjures up images of wide open spaces, sprawling landscapes or grand vistas when you think about painting from nature, step closer. This book will lend you an entirely new perspective.

Offering an intimate lens on nature's easy to overlook tenderness, this essential guide gives the tools you need to capture the natural world's subtle detail in your own painting. Accomplished artist and naturalist Cathy Johnson shares her practical advice on portraying light and shadow, texture, water patterns, plants and flowers and other viewpoints of nature's subtle beauty.

This book is a must-have for every artist of nature.

Readers interested in related titles from Cathy A. Johnson will also want to see: A Naturalist's Cabin (ISBN: 1635610656), On Becoming Lost (ISBN: 1635615607), The Nocturnal Naturalist (ISBN: 163561564X ).