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Many of Charley’s most complex images were created between the late 1970s and the beginning of this century. Some pictured entire ecosystems rather than individual creatures or several creatures interacting. These massive images, especially the ten huge paintings commissioned by the National Park Service that required a year each to paint, are marriages of clever design and stunning colors. These images, along with others created for national monuments, nature centers, birding centers, zoos, parks, and an international bio preserve, are sure to offer an
escapeinto Charley’s natural world. Recently I uncovered a letter of his, written in 1966, in which he confessed,If I had not become an artist, I am sure I would have been a conservationist.In a way, I think he succeeded at being both.With painstaking care, the graphic designers at Pomegranate Communications have traced by hand the outlines of over fifty classic Charley Harper images. Thus, every complex image has been carefully extracted and redrawn from the original painting housed in the Harper studio archives. Each flower, beak, wing, leaf, fin, leg, and head has been retrieved and prepared to provide you with many hours and days of enjoyable coloring. If you wish, follow the reproductions of Charley’s actual full-color images and employ them as your guide. Or, use creative license and make up your own color combinations. I just want you to relax and have fun! Happy coloring.
–Brett Harper, son of Charley and Edie Harper
Inside are 50 pages of Harper’s playful critters, with reproductions of his full-color illustrations on the inside of the front and back covers. We’ve also included a blank page at the end so you, like Harper, can sketch the world around you.
Images:
- Insect Diversity
- Atlantic Barrier Islands
- Cardinals Consorting
- The Alpine Northwest
- Loonscape
- Backyard Birds
- Early Risers
- Bark Eyes
- Biodiversity in the Burbs
- Birdfeeders
- Woodland Wonders
- Bear in the Birches
- Glacier Bay, Alaska
- Canyon Country
- A Good World
- Poster for The Conservancy, Naples, Florida
- Deep Forest
- Poster for Michigan Audubon Society
- Flamboyant Feathers
- Foxsimiles
- Go 4 It
- The Rocky Mountains
- The Florida Keys
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Poster for the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania
- Poster for the Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
- Mystery of the Missing Migrants
- Poster for Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center, Cleveland, Ohio
- Octoberama
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, California
- Asian Tiger
- Under the Sweetgum Tree
- Plain and Fancy
- Birducopia
- Redbirds and Redbuds
- Savoring Sycamore
- The Sierra Range
- Space for All Species (detail)
- The Desert
- Summer
- Vowlentine
- Tree of Life (detail)
- Twowls
- Turkey Talk
- Zoo Babies
- We Think the World of Birds
- Peril in the Petunias
- Wings of the World
One book with 50 images to color. Each illustration is reproduced as a full-page black line drawing and as a full-color drawing. Coloring pages are blank on the back so they can be cut out and displayed.
Download a PDF guide to the flora and fauna depicted in the poster for the Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica.
Artist | Charley Harper |
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Dimensions | 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 3/8 |
Number of Pages | 108 |