Sketching and drawing are fundamental to creating great art; the simple doodle is often where the artist first brings their ideas and concepts to life. In Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts, we have gathered together fifty talented traditional and digital artists to showcase work from their sketchbooks, share inspiration, and give insight into how they create imaginative and dark illustrations. Featuring a range of artwork and artists from many fields, from concept design and animation to illustration and comic art, Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts is a collection of beautifully macabre sketches with plenty of useful tips and creative insights an invaluable resource that will inspire artists of all abilities.

Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of 'cities of light' and 'hearts of darkness' coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848-1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies. -- .

Qu'est-ce qu'un visage ? Qu'une tete ? C'est a ces questions que Marwan (1934-2016) s'est confronte dans sa demarche artistique en commencant par la figure humaine pour explorer inlassablement le visage. Si ce dernier, traite horizontalement, est reconnaissable dans ses traits, la tete, effigie verticale, s'efface. Le present livre s'appuie sur la biographie du peintre dont le langage artistique s'est elabore entre Damas et Berlin, et sur une etude transculturelle qui questionne le theme du visage dans son oeuvre. L'acces a sa problematique picturale a ete rendu possible grace aux sources premieres: dessins preparatoires, ecrits et entretiens entre l'auteure et l'artiste durant les dix dernieres annees de sa vie. Nourri de la double culture orientale et occidentale, Marwan participe au questionnement du visage humain dans ses metamorphoses par rapport a l'absence, a l'inanime, au voilement-devoilement, au meme et a l'autre, au singulier et a l'universel.

Diese Studie liefert erstmals konkrete Ergebnisse, wie sich bei Videokunst die Art der Prasentation auf die Rezeptions- und Entwicklungsgeschichte dieses Mediums auswirkt. Da der latente, nicht prasentierte Zustand eines Videos in keiner Weise dem sichtbaren Endprodukt entspricht, erhalt der Prozess des Ausstellens eine ungewoehnliche Relevanz. Wird dieselbe Videoarbeit anders interpretiert, wenn sie in der Black Box, im White Cube, als Einzelprasentation oder in einer Videolounge gezeigt wird? Und warum stellt Video, trotz vierzigjahriger Ausstellungspraxis, fur Kuratoren und Publikum nach wie vor eine Herausforderung dar? 50 kommentierte und abgebildete Fallbeispiele von der documenta 1972 bis zu Ausstellungen im Jahr 2006 beleuchten das produktive Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Kunstlern, Kuratoren und Besuchern, beziehungsweise zwischen Werk, Prasentation und Rezeption. Die Analysen der verschiedenen Inszenierungsstrategien legen nicht nur offen, in welchem Mass die Werkwahrnehmung vom jeweiligen Prasentationsmodus abhangt, sondern bieten Antwort auf die zentrale Frage, ob und wann die Prasentation konstitutiver Teil des Kunstwerks ist.

Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular painting theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that, as an artist, you should learn and gain expertise through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, rather you will find new forms of expression in your work and gain confidence in your skills. Designed to inform and inspire new artists and rekindle passion for painting in experienced artists, this book offers a range of exercises broken down by theme: Who (artist-inspired), What (tools and materials), When (a time-based concept), Where (a sense of place), and How (inspired by a technique or method). Paint Lab is illustrated with brilliant full-color images and multiple examples of each exercise. This book offers you a visual, non-linear approach to learning painting techniques, and reinforces a fun and fearless approach to creating art.

Fashion drawing is the most important way to visualize ideas and concepts in costume and fashion design. This new and expanded two-volume edition of the already classic title Figure Drawing for Fashion Design--revised, updated and expanded--is a precise, topic-by-topic manual that will help readers acquire and perfect their skills drawing fashion designs on the female form. Mastering the rules of figure drawing as well as stylistic techniques that add individuality and flair to the design is an essential skill for all designers and illustrators to master in order to bring one's vision to the page, and eventually mannequin. In its approach, this book is ideal both for those designers and students who want to apply themselves professionally to fashion design, and for all enthusiasts of drawing the female body in a fashion context.

Agnes Nobel examines the importance of art in the development of the child and looks for some answers to the vital question: what is education for? She goes on to investigate why Waldorf/Steiner schools attach such importance to art in education, and why Rudolf Steiner himself brought artistic training into all fields of further education. She describes Steiner's picture of the developing child, his views on the imprint of early experience on the child's whole being and the importance of living relationships and community in the Waldorf school. She shows how these ideas were expressed in the curriculum of the schools. There have been many books written on the Steiner approach to education but they have usually been written from within the Steiner educational movement. This book takes an "outsider's" view of Waldorf education and assesses its unique qualities, successes and limitations.

This title offers an original survey on Colonial artists' materials and techniques. This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. Based on extensive research including artists' recipe books, letters, journals, and painting manuals, much previously unpublished, the authors have also drawn on their many years as conservators of paintings for museums and collectors. Information is provided on the methods of painters such as Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, Washington Allston, Thomas Sully, Thomas Cole, and William Sidney Mount. It includes topics such as the quest for the 'secrets' of the Old Masters; how artists saw their paintings changing over time; the application of 'toning' layers; and, the evolving self-confidence of American experimenters and innovators.

Unique digital drawings from one of Switzerland's most prolific artists of today. Since early in his career, the Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer has used digital drawings as the basis of his work, which oscillates between sculpture and the moving image. Lines drawn into a space in abeyance visualize his figurative thought and beguile the viewer into bizarre, comical, and eerie associations. Netzhammer's refined and precise pictorial rhetoric plays a subtle game that permits the viewer a variety of interpretations and continually evades the deceptive moment of unambiguity. This results in images in which complexity and levity, formal strictness, or conceptual proliferation come to the front depending on one's point of view. Convex Thoughts is a bibliographical space that complements its predecessor, Concave Thoughts-together they are a guide for dreamers and musers, an endless storyboard from an art at the highs and lows of its time.

Blacksmithing skills are greatly in demand in many rural areas, for making agricultural implements and other metal tools. This book is designed to help skilled blacksmiths who have little or no teaching experience to train others in forge work techniques, using easily obtainable equipment and scrap metal to produce tools such as hoes, sickles, hammers and axes.

Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of colour. He favoured novel applications of paint in unusual matte finishes. For Kirchner, colour was of primary importance, coupled with technique and style. He was one of the leading Expressionist painters of the time and was one of the founding members of the Brucke. In his deeply personal depictions, he focused on the places where he lived and worked and his close friends and associates. This book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, provides a visual survey of Kirchner's oeuvre and offers an in-depth analysis of different aspects of the artist's output. Essays by leading experts examine Kirchner's approach to colour, his interest in the decorative arts, how electric light affected his treatment of colour, the impact of Nietzsche on his work, and how he was profoundly changed by World War I. This book includes illustrations of nearly 40 paintings, 30 prints, as well as drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, and decorative work.

Elaborado por un equipo de profesionales del color y de la ensenanza, este libro va dirigido fundamentalmente a los alumnos de arte de un nivel medio-alto. Alumnos de distintas escuelas que no se conforman con una simple descripcion de los fenomenos, y que demandan unas explicaciones convincentes de los mismos. Con esta intencion como premisa, se elaborado un manual sobre el color, descriptivo en los capitulos esenciales, reflexivo y conectado estrechamente con las disciplinas afines de las que se alimenta y a las que tambien remite. Contiene fundamentos teoricos y fisicos del color, de optica, de historia y simbologia en el uso del color, asi como fundamentos de armonia y las ultimas tecnicas y soportes digitales para imagen.

Aunque el Tratado de pintura de Leonardo da Vinci no fue impreso hasta el siglo XVIII, los fragmentarios manuscritos que para componerlo reunieron sus primeros escritores habian circulado profusamente por Europa y suscitado la admirada curiosidad de artistas y eruditos. El Tratado es obra de las empresas imposibles de Leonardo, un fracaso mas de los que, por muy dispares caminos, se cebaron en su empeno de refundir todas las formulaciones empiricas y todos los topicos conceptuosos del Renacimiento y ordenarlos en una sistema universal. Toda edicion del Tratado debe entenderselas con la dificultad de evocar esta vision y ese fracaso, seleccionando y combinando textos y dibujos, dificultad que no habia sido salvada con acierto en las publicaciones existentes en lengua castellana. La version que presentamos viene, pues, a cumplir una implazable exigencia de la bibliografia artistica espanola.

Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political change This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their use flourished. Technical discoveries facilitated new visual effects, political conditions prompted innovations, and economic changes shaped artists' strategies, especially as trade became global. Marcia Hall explores how Michelangelo radically broke with his contemporaries' harmonizing use of color in favor of a highly saturated approach; how the robust art market and demand for affordable pictures in 17th-century Netherlands helped popularize subtly colored landscape paintings; how politics and color became entangled during the French Revolution; and how modern artists liberated color from representation as their own role transformed from manipulators of pigments to visionaries celebrated for their individual expression. Using insights from recent conservation studies, Hall captivates readers with fascinating details and developments in magnificent examples-from Botticelli and Titian to Van Gogh and Kandinsky-to weave an engaging analysis. Her insistence on the importance of examining technique and material to understand artistic meaning gives readers the tools to look at these paintings with fresh eyes.