BEEBE
HOPPER (1926-2014) was an artist from Mississippi who moved to California with
her husband in 1950, which opened a whole new world of creative endeavors
including ceramics, china painting and crafts of all kinds. She began her oil
painting then as well as watercolor painting, intaglio etching, and acrylic
painting of bird carvings. Today, her wild fowl canvases sell for hundreds of
dollars. She also published many books on how to paint carvings of shore and
sport birds specializing in her realistic feathers – she published four books
just on this. She also covers this in PAINTING WILD GEESE featuring Canada,
Snow, Blue, Brant, and Emperor Geese. A feather is a feather is a feather,
whether it is on a duck, goose, songbird, shorebird, hummingbird, chicken,
bird-of-paradise or whatever the variety may be. The feather painting
techniques taught in this book are Hopper’s unique approach. Techniques are
used on textured carvings, carvings with the feather pattern burned in, or on
smooth surfaces. The techniques can be used with any media; oils, acrylics, or
watercolor