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Hi LaRae. Thanks for the kind words - it means a lot to me. I haven't done a book (yet!) but have have contributed to the Coloured Pencil Secrets for Success (Ann Kullberg) and The Coloured Pencil Artists Drawing Bible (Jane Strother). I have some more work appearing in another art book later this year by Quarto publishing so look out for that one too. I do Drawing Realistic Fur workshops and/or one-to-one tuition here in the UK to explain the process in more detail. They go down well too. Best wishes, Rich.
Richard Childs
You do wonderful work. Just wondering if you have any books out to help people learn more on colored pencil. I am having a hard time getting fur as fine as I would like. It looks like what you have done on this one great picture that you might be able to help me accomplish that. would love to hear from you. LaRae
LaRae Luettgen
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| The Hope of Sepilok |
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| artwork by this artist |
| Media: Coloured Pencil
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| Subject: Wildlife
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| WxH: 27 X 39 Centimeters |
| The Bornean orang-utan, pongo ygmaeus - the ‘man of the forest’, is a species of orang-utan native to the island of Borneo. The conservation status of this remarkable animal is classified as: Endangered Species. Soaring demand for palm oil, an ingredient of Biofuels and one in five products at your local supermarket, has already led to tropical rain forests being cleared in South-East Asia at an alarming rate. Large areas are being removed to make room for plantations in Borneo & Sumatra, not only causing climate change but posing the single greatest threat to the future of orang-utans in the wild. In the past 20 years, 80% of habitat has been lost to illegal logging, gold mining & the palm oil industry. Much of this activity is illegal, occurring in national parks that are off limits to loggers, miners and plantation development. There is also a major problem with the poaching of baby orang-utans for sale in the pet trade; the trappers killing the mothers to steal the baby. If the palm oil industry is not regulated, at the current rate of decline by 2012 we may have witnessed the disappearance of the orang-utan. The drawing, which took 65 hours to complete using Prismacolor pencils on Risings Stonehenge paper, tells the story of an orphaned orang-utan which was rescued from a logging site and taken to the Sepilok Orang-utan sanctuary in the state of Sabah. Price includes for limited edition giclee signed by the artist print. |
| Price: £50.00 |
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