Bart Rulon - Artists photo reference. Water & skies

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WILDLIFE

BART RULON

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About the Author

Born in 1968, Bart Rulon lives and works on Whidbey Island in Washington States Puget Sound. He received a bachelors degree from the University of Kentucky in a self-designed scientific illustration major. He graduated with honors and became a full-time professional artist focusing on wildlife and landscape subjects, specializing in birds.

Barts paintings have been included in thirteen exhibitions with the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, including ten appearances in the Birds in Art exhibit and one each in its Wildlife: The Artists View, Natural Wonders and Art and the Animal exhibits. His work has been chosen for the Society of Animal Artists exhibition Art andthe Animal, each of the nine years since he became a member. His paintings have been included in the Arts for the Parks Top 100 exhibition and national tour seven times, and in 1994 he won its Bird Art Award. Other recent awards include the Henderson Area Arts Alliance Award at the 2000Kentucky National Wildlife Art Exhibit, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Featured Artist 2001 and the Audubon Alliance Artist of the Year Award for 1998. His paintings of birds are included in the permanent collections of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Bennington Center for the Arts and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. His paintings have been exhibited in over thirty-five museums including The National Museum of Wildlife Art, The Gilcrease Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History and National Geographic Societys Explorers Hall.

Bart is the author and illustrator of Painting Birds Step by Step (North Light Books, 1996), Artists Photo Reference:Birds (North Light Books, 1999) and Artists Photo Reference: Water and Skies (North Light Books, 2002). His work has been featured in four other North Light Books: Wildlife Painting Step by Step (Patrick Seslar 1995), The Best of WildlifeArt (edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf, 1999), Keys to Painting Fur & Feathers (edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf, 1999) and Paintingthe Faces of Wildlife Step by Step (Kalon Baughan, 2000).

Barts primary interest is experiencing animals firsthand in the wild. He prides himself on the time he spends in the field researching wildlife. All this extra effort pays off in the long run because I get to see nature in ways most people never see, he says. The exhilaration of having an orca surface twenty feet away from my kayak or watching the sun set on a mountain top gives me so much inspiration to paint.

Artists Photo Reference: Wildlife. Copyright 2003 by Bart Rulon. Manufactured in Singapore. All rights reserved. By permission of the author and publisher, the photographs in this book may be photocopied for reference purposes, but under no circumstances may they be resold or republished. No other part of the text in this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236. (800) 289-0963. First paperback edition 2006.

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Library of Congress has Cataloged hardcover edition as follows:
Rulon, Bart.
Artists photo reference : Wildlife / Bart Rulon ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-166-8 (Hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-58180-166-1 (Hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-923-7 (Pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-923-9 (Pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-594-8 (EPUB)

1. Animals in art. 2. Painting from photographs. I. Title.

ND1380 .R775 2003 2002028594
758.3dc21
Edited by Jennifer Lepore Kardux
Cover design by Kelly Sohngen
Interior design by Nicole Armstrong
Interior production by Nicole Armstrong
Production coordinated by Mark Griffin

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Dedication

To my mom, dad and brother who are the best family a guy could ask for.

Acknowledgments

I would like to say thank you to the following people: First to Kalon Baughan and Sueellen Ross for contributing their beautiful work and techniques for this book. To my frequent travel buddies Kalon Baughan, Dave Sellers and Mark Boyle who were with me on many of these wildlife adventures. You guys are great! To Angie and Meagan for making my life better, for loving me despite the demands of my career, for having patience with me and for critiquing my work. To Sarah Scott for taking me to India! Photographing wild tigers was a dream come true. To Don Enright for always being there for me when I need a critique, or for borrowing this and that. To Shane and Jennifer Aggergaard, of Island Adventures, for allowing me to ride along all summer for some great killer whale photography. To all the talented guides that helped me find wildlife in India and Africa: Tirath Singh from India; Desderius Roman, Samson Mweta and Jackson Mbiha in Tanzania; and Preston Mutinda, Joseph Gichanga, Peter Muigai and Lawrence Nganga Ngugi in Kenya. To Jim Brower, John Morrison and Peter Cramer for being so patient with me wanting to watch the leopard for five, ten or fifteen more minutes. To John Kipling for always letting me borrow camera gear when Im in a bind. To my editor Jennifer Lepore Kardux, for being a delight to work with, and for being so patient with me.

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