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These sketchbooks, the work of the acclaimed Scottish artist
Barbara Rae CBE RA during her three journeys towards the Northwest
Passage in the depths of the Arctic Circle in 2015, 2016 and 2017,
record in colourful and assured brush strokes the icebergs, frozen
bays and snowdrifts of this often hostile landscape. Polar bears
roam and the Northern Lights dance across its pages, accompanied by
Rae's handwritten notes in which she records her experiences and
her immediate reactions to this harsh, unforgiving environment.
Each page of the sketchbooks is meticulously reproduced, and the
handsomely bound volume sits comfortably in the hand, making it the
perfect gift for anyone interested in painting or exploration. Each
page of the sketchbooks is meticulously reproduced, and the
handsomely bound volume sits comfortably in the hand, making it the
perfect gift for anyone interested in painting or exploration.
Learn how use oil paints with this clear and simple guide.
Accomplished artist and teacher Norman Long explains all the basics
and shows you how to master this versatile, vibrant medium so you
can produce beautiful paintings full of life and color. Oils has a
handy front section covering all the practical stuff, from choosing
the right materials to essential techniques. 10 step-by-step
tutorials each broken down into key stages range of subject matter
from still life to landscapes to figures clear step-by-step
photography and instructions includes special features on painting
people, painting outdoors and composition tips and practical advice
to help make the most of your paints
Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, Inspiring
Walt Disney explores the influences of the art and architecture of
France on Walt Disney and his studio artists, highlighting in
particular the Disney classics of hand-drawn animation, Cinderella
(1950) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Pairing preparatory
material from these films - including concept art for talking
furniture and fairy-tale castles - with masterpieces from the
eighteenth century reveals hidden sources of inspiration and allows
us to appreciate the extraordinary talents behind Disney animated
films and French decorative arts. Just as the dynamic, twisting
movements of the Rococo sought to breathe life into what was
essentially inanimate - silver, porcelain, furniture - so too did
Disney animators seek to create the illusion of movement, action
and emotion. Illustrated with innovative works by artists such as
Mary Blair, Hans Bacher and Peter J. Hall, and the animated and
anthropomorphic furniture, Sevres porcelain and gilt bronze of
rococo designers, the catalogue explores the shared creative roots
of these two seemingly disparate artistic realms and looks to
revitalise the feelings of excitement, awe and marvel, which both
eighteenth-century craftsmen and Disney animators sought to spark
in their audiences.
This handy guide to perspective drawing provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing. Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality, perspective distortion, and determining heights and widths. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1964.
Abandoned Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: California Revealed is
an unforgettable nocturnal journey through secret locations hidden
in the deserts of California. California has more than its share of
abandoned planes, trains, and automobiles. Famous for its aviation
and aerospace, the completion of the First Transcontinental
Railroad, and car culture, California has long been at the
forefront of transportation. Wander with Ken through rarely seen
locations as he illuminates these forgotten scenes with light,
creating haunting dreamlike exposures of several minutes or more.
Immerse yourself in the experiences and adventures. Discover
precisely how these night photos are created. If you are a fan of
creative photography, transportation history, or vivid travel
stories, this exploration of California's abandoned planes, trains,
and automobiles is for you.
Starry Night is a fascinating, fully illustrated account of Van
Gogh's time at the asylum in Saint-Remy, during which he created
some of his most iconic pieces of art. Despite the challenges of
ill health and asylum life, Van Gogh continued to produce a series
of masterpieces - cypresses, wheatfields, olive groves and sunsets
during his time there. This fascinating and insightful work from
arts journalist and Van Gogh specialist Martin Bailey examines his
time there, from the struggles that sent him to the asylum, to the
brilliant creative inspiration that he found during his time here.
He wrote very little about the asylum in letters to his brother
Theo, so this book sets out to give an impression of daily life
behind the walls of the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole and looks
at Van Gogh through fresh eyes, with newly discovered material. An
essential insight into the mind of a flawed genius, Starry Night is
indispensable for those who wish to understand the life of one of
the most talented and brilliant artists to have put paintbrush to
canvas.
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"It stood out for me for a number of reasons. The first, and by far
the most important to me, being that the composition is absolutely
gorgeous." - Tim Clinch, Amateur Photographer "Packed with
compelling visuals and important discussions around some of the
planet's biggest issues, it's an excellent compendium of some of
the world's best photographers working today." - Amateur
Photographer "As compelling in its visuals as it is in its
messaging, Fire is an unforgettable document." - Jonathan McIntosh,
Royal Photographic Society Journal Fire is the fourth element. It
destroys and creates something new. In its heat, colours, and
magnitude, it provides a terrifying spectacle as much as an
existential threat. Today, it speaks as much to the fragility of
human structures as to the damage wrought on nature: the fire at
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, forest fires from the Amazon to
Australia, and infernos in California so colossal that the sky
turned red. Reason enough for the Prix Pictet, the world's leading
award for photography and sustainability, to dedicate this year's
photo book to the many facets of fire. Selected by photography
experts from around the world, this impressive publication features
100 images from the Prix Pictet shortlist and beyond. As compelling
in its visuals as it is in its messaging, this is an unforgettable
document of an elemental force, and of the increasing extremes of
climate change.
David Hockney is possibly the world's most popular living painter,
but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on
art. Here are the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the
problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on
a flat surface. How does drawing make one `see things clearer, and
clearer, and clearer still', as Hockney suggests? What significance
do different media - from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad - have for
the way we see? What is the relationship between the images we make
and the reality around us? How have changes in technology affected
the way artists depict the world? The conversations are punctuated
by wise and witty observations from both parties on numerous other
artists - Van Gogh or Vermeer, Caravaggio, Monet, Picasso - and
enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and
physical landscapes of California, where Hockney lives, and
Yorkshire, his birthplace. Some of the people he has encountered
along the way - from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Billy Wilder - make
entertaining appearances in the dialogue.
Stan Lee, the Mighty Man from Marvel, and John Buscema, active and adventuresome artist behind the Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, the Mighty Thor and Spider-Man, have collaborated on this comics compendium: an encyclopedia of information for creating your own superhero comic strips. Using artwork from Marvel comics as primary examples, Buscema graphically illustrates the hitherto mysterious methods of comic art. Stan Lee's pithy prose gives able assistance and advice to the apprentice artist. Bursting with Buscema's magnificent illustrations and Lee's laudable word-magic, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way belongs in the library of every kid who has ever wanted to illustrate his or her own comic strip.
Drawing is not a talent. It's a skill anyone can learn. This is the
philosophy of drawing instructor Brent Eviston based on his more
than twenty years of teaching. He has tested numerous types of
drawing instruction from centuries old classical techniques to
contemporary practices and designed an approach that combines tried
and true techniques with innovative methods of his own. Now, he
shares his secrets with this book that provides the most
accessible, streamlined, and effective methods for learning to
draw. Taking the reader through the entire process, beginning with
the most basic skills to more advanced such as volumetric drawing,
shading, and figure sketching, this book contains numerous projects
and guidance on what and how to practice. It also features
instructional images and diagrams as well as finished drawings that
showcase Brent's creative work. With this book and a dedication to
practice, anyone can learn to draw!
Claire Waite Brown provides all the key techniques such as mixing,
blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering in over
100 visual sequences. There is advice on composing your painting,
using colour, adding highlights and shadows and creating textured
effects. The step-by-step demonstrations range from landscapes and
flowers to portraits and still life. You'll find plenty to inspire
you with this captivating medium with beautiful examples in
full-colour photography.
In this follow-up to the best-selling The Master Guide to Drawing
Anime, manga master Christopher Hart focuses on some of the most
popular characters of Japanese anime: the dynamic and beautiful
women and girls. Aspiring anime artists will learn all the ins and
outs of creating these stunning heroines, schoolgirls and fantasy
characters. Basic templates make it easy to draw the head,
hairstyles, clothing, body proportions and more. Tutorials on
creating scenes and multiple characters take the drawings to the
next level. All of these topics and more are covered with
Christopher Hart's trademark easy-to-follow steps with helpful
techniques and tips.
Waterlife features Mithila art, a vibrant and delicate form of folk
painting from Bihar in eastern India. The artist Rambharos Jha grew
up on the banks of the legendary river Ganga, and developed a
fascination for water and water life. In this book he creates an
unusual artist's journal, adapting the motifs of the Mithila style
to express his own vision. He frames his art with a playful text
that evokes both childhood memory and folk legend. 'The long
awaited successor to the bestselling Night Life of Trees, Waterlife
is silk-screen printed by hand on handmade paper.
'The crossbill is a bonny bird An she sings wi a guid Scots tongue
Jip-jip-jip A'll gie ye gip Gin ye meddle wi me nor ma young' As a
result of his travels across the North American continent in the
eighteenth century Alexander Wilson pioneered the science of
ornithological writing and illustration, becoming an inspiration
for most of the ornithological works which followed. This new book
celebrates the artwork of Alexander Wilson by reproducing his
illustrations alongside new poems in Scots by Hamish MacDonald,
looking at the habits, habitats, and characteristics of birds.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is the one artist whose name we associate
in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the "Golden Age". As a
sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the
Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable ladies and as
an illustrator of unashamed eroticism, Klimt was both the enfant
terrible and the darling of Viennese society, who created icons of
art history with works like The Kiss and his portraits of Adele
Bloch-Bauer.
The livre d'artiste, or 'artist's book', is among the most prized
in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the
greatest artists to work in this genre, creating his most important
books over a period of eighteen years from 1932 to 1950 - a time of
personal upheaval and physical suffering, as well as conflict and
occupation for France. Brimming with powerful themes and imagery,
these works are crucial to an understanding of Matisse's oeuvre,
yet much of their content has never been seen by a wider audience.
In Matisse: The Books, Louise Rogers Lalaurie reintroduces us to
Matisse by considering how in each of eight limited-edition
volumes, the artist constructs an intriguing dialogue between word
and image. She also highlights the books' profound significance for
Matisse as the catalysts for the extraordinary 'second life' of his
paper cut-outs. In concert with an eclectic selection of poetry,
drama and, tantalizingly, Matisse's own words, the books' images
offer an astonishing portrait of creative resistance and
regeneration. Matisse's books contain some of the artist's
best-known graphic works - the magnificent, belligerent swan from
the Poesies de Stephane Mallarme, or the vigorous linocut profile
from Pasiphae (1944), reversed in a single, rippling stroke out of
a lake of velvety black. In Jazz, the cut-out silhouette of Icarus
plummets through the azure, surrounded by yellow starbursts, his
heart a mesmerizing dot of red. But while such individual images
are well known, their place in an integrated sequence of pictures,
decorations and words is not. With deftness and sensitivity,
Lalaurie explores the page-by-page interplay of the books,
translating key sequences and discussing their distinct themes and
creative genesis. Together Matisse's artist books reveal his deep
engagement with questions of beauty and truth; his faith; his
perspectives on aging, loss, and inspiration; and his relationship
to his critics, the French art establishment and the women in his
life. In addition, Matisse: The Books illuminates the artist's
often misunderstood political affinities - in particular, his
decision to live in the collaborationist Vichy zone, throughout
World War II. Matisse's wartime books are revealed as a body of
work that stands as a deeply personal statement of resistance.
Artists' Corner in St Paul's Cathedral is the final resting place
for some of the greatest artists working in the United Kingdom,
including Turner, Leighton and Millais. British painters of the
19th century are shoulder to shoulder with artists from America and
Continental Europe who made Britain their home and helped to shape
national taste. Artists' Corner reflects a golden age of artistic
production, when the visual arts were central to British cultural
pride and identity, when the funerals of the cultural figures were
occasions of national mourning, and their achievements were marked
with monuments and enduring plaques. All of the painters and
sculptors memorialised in Artists' Corner are brought together in
this guide, with references to some of their master works which
chart a trajectory from history painting to the arrival of
impressionism and abstraction in the 20th century.
The artists who came and formed the tight-knit northern New Mexican
artistic community that flourished between the wars and later were
as diverse as the styles they developed and brought with them. Not
all, of course, were painting in the modern idiom, but it is
undeniable that many of the most talented and interesting of these
painters were.
These diffuse elements fuse with a strong regional feeling in the
art of the New Mexico modernists. The roots of this tradition lay
in a centuries-old tradition of Western art, culture and myth. What
is fascinating to today's viewer is to note how they worked to tap
into the spirit and feeling of a land which was home to human
culture for centuries before the white man arrived. What is truly
fascinating is to see how well they succeeded in melding this
ancient place with their own modern times. This catalogue explores
the styles of 12 of the most important and influential artists
including Andrew Dasburg, Frank Applegate, Emil Bisttram and Cady
Wells.
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