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Raymond Sheppard - Master Illustrator (Paperback)
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Raymond Sheppard - Master Illustrator (Paperback)
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Raymond Sheppard showed an early interest in both art and nature
and aged 15 enrolled in the Elementary Course of John Hassall's
Correspondence Art School where he was complimented on "his
remarkable understanding of the correctness of drawing". Sheppard's
talent for drawing wildlife gained recognition with the success of
the first of his three books for The Studio Publications How to
Draw Series. How to Draw Birds, published in 1940, not only ran to
four reprints during WW2 but a further two reprints afterwards in
1948 and 1955 - a remarkable feat for a 27 year old artist. This
not only provided Sheppard with a secure, if modest, financial
income but put him on a stage alongside the highly regarded
draughtsman of this genre John Skeaping (How to Draw Horses) and
C.F. Tunnicliffe (How to Draw Farm Animals) both of whom were 12
years his senior. In parallel to his work as an illustrator of
wildlife, Sheppard, along with Jack Merriott as President, became a
founding member of the Wapping Group. Limited to 25 members, The
Wappers, as they were known, comprised artists from the Langham
Sketching Club, (which did not meet in the summer months,) who
convened along the river between Westminster and Gravesend, in the
East End of London, to paint scenes along the Thames. If Raymond
Sheppard's drawings are to been seen as something more than
illustrations the key is here: "An outlook at once poetic and
intimate, whose technique was developed from a habit of
contemplation".
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