"Painter's Quick Reference Birds & Butterflies" features a unique combination of quick, concise painting demos and inspiring ideas from today's most popular bird-and-butterfly artists including Sherry C. Nelson and Claudia Nice. With subjects ranging from cardinals, hummingbirds, goldfinches to peacocks, red macaws, and swallowtail and silvery blue butterflies, this easy-to-use reference will be the first place bird and butterfly painters turn for instruction and inspiration.With instruction in acrylics, oils, water-color and colored pencil in a variety of painting styles, artists of any skill level will find something that appeals to them.