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Foundations of Drawing is a comprehensive and authoritative
overview of the history, aesthetics, methods and materials of the
drawing medium. Clearly defined demonstrations provide easy access
to the practice of drawing as well as the history and development
of core drawing techniques. Richly illustrated, the book contains
reproductions of the finest master drawings from the fifteenth
century to the present. Unlike other drawing instruction books,
Foundations of Drawing provides readers with the context and
background to help understand just why these materials and methods
are so vital for successful drawing.
In this stunning collaboration, bestselling writer Michael
Harding's most memorable musings on the human condition are brought
to life by illustrator Jacob Stack. In these pages, the reader is
held in moments of belonging, solitude, love and healing as we
witness the beauty of falling snow, the pain and love of goodbyes,
and the shared lives and deaths of neighbours amid the sweeping
landscape of Ireland. A Cloud Where the Birds Rise is a beautifully
illustrated collection of observations and stories from one of
Ireland's best-loved writers - a celebration of finding beauty and
hope in the ordinary.
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Found in our archives, the Black's Sketchbooks are a series of
books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known
artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and
Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on
Continental cities such as Paris and Venice. The result is a
charming series of books that present a fascinating look at British
and European locations as they were almost a century ago. This
title is a delightful look at Durham as it was in 1920.
This is an inspiring must-have resource for artists seeking new
approaches to drawing the human figure. It features more than 20
fundamental figure drawing exercises. It empowers students and
artists of all levels to make progress with the figure beyond their
expectations. Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has
been regarded as the very foundation of an artist's education and
at the centre of the art-making process. In "Expressive Figure
Drawing", innovative teacher and author, Bill Buchman, explores the
idea that the way we draw is a direct expression of our emotions
and perceptions. It includes 20 plus fundamental figure drawing
exercises that are undertaken one step at a time so that students
and artists of all levels are empowered to make progress with the
figure beyond their expectations. Throughout the book, the author
reveals his methods for developing proficiency using a variety of
traditional media and the latest art materials available today.
in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton
Turner The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the
first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always
occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism.
This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since
1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American
Art and the Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the
year after Dove took up painting, through 1946, the year of his
death. It is comprised of approximately eighty paintings, collages,
pastels, and charcoal drawings.Along with Georgia O'Keeffe and John
Marin, Dove was touted for more than three decades by photographer
and dealer Alfred Stieglitz as an American original, one whose work
was prescient in its opposition to the materialism of a newly
industrialized America. Essays by Balken, Agee, and Turner discuss
Dove's interactions with Stieglitz and others in his circle,
including O'Keeffe, Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Paul Strand, and
re-examine Dove in the context of early twentieth-century
intellectual and cultural history. The book contains color plates
of all the works in the exhibition; the essays are profusely
illustrated with black-and-white images not included in the
exhibition. Apart from an out-of-print catalogue raisonne, this
book is the largest and most comprehensive publication to date on
Dove's work.Copublished with the Addison Gallery of American Art in
association with the Phillips Collection"
Have you ever wondered what beats beneath an animal's skin? Well,
you wouldn't be the first one. The study of comparative anatomy has
led to some of the most striking images ever created. For two and a
half thousand years, the animal body has been picked apart to drive
arguments in natural philosophy, to reinforce dogma, to remind us
of death, to horrify, educate, and enthral. This book recounts the
intertwined intellectual and artistic journeys of comparative
anatomy from antiquity to the present day. Rather than offering an
exhaustive listing, it focuses on the distinctive artistic flavors
of five great phases of anatomical endeavour. Horses opened like
books, the leer of a shark's eye, the humming loom of the brain-all
life is here, dissected, and depicted. Lyrically written and
accompanied by captivating illustrations from history's animal
anatomists, this is the ideal read for designers, art lovers and
scientists alike.
The exhibited works of Kurt Jackson (b.1961) do not necessarily
reveal his day-to-day working practice. Behind his finished
canvases are hundreds of sketchbooks borne out of his continual
routine of making drawings, marks, notes, poems and scribbles. This
book, newly available in paperback, examines the importance of the
sketchbook to Jackson. For Jackson, sketchbooks are vital to the
development and completion of his paintings. Often sketching while
a painting evolves, the artist values each medium equally - the
pages of his sketchbooks reveal how the hastily executed images can
help him to work out what he wants to achieve on canvas, or simply
capture a spontaneous image when there is not enough time to paint
or draw properly. Illustrating mundane daily events and happenings
as well as key moments, journeys and the overlapping ongoing
project work, Jackson's sketchbooks are key to understanding his
inspirations as an artist. Drawing on a selection of 20
sketchbooks, of differing sizes and a variety of media, this
fascinating publication provides a rare insight in to the mind of a
highly creative and original artist.
Now available in a brand-new edition, this popular and widely
praised instructional textbook has become a standard for classroom
use in fashion design courses. Twenty-four step-by-step exercises
tutor students in methods for finding inspiration, developing
techniques to sharpen their observational skills, and in creating
fashion drawings in color and black-and-white media. Separate
sections coach students in getting started, and on understanding
figure proportions, planning and designing garments, and creating
and assessing flat specification drawings. New in this expanded and
updated edition is a section that provides detailed instruction in
digital art techniques. This beautifully illustrated guide is
organized into units that reflect curricula at leading
international design colleges. Added features include a designer's
glossary and an index. The book's more than 300 color illustrations
are as instructive as they are handsome.
Illustrating the dominant features of many common species - elm,
maple, willow, apple, birch, pine and more - the author offers two
portraits of each in various mediums, from pencil to water colour
wash.
Known internationally for designing buildings that take their
inspiration from the land, Antoine Predock explores many of his
ideas about architecture through the fluent medium of drawing. This
collection of 172 sketches, many published here for the first time,
surveys nearly fifty years of his work. Presented in a format that
evokes Predock's sketchbooks, the drawings are arranged according
to the logic of their internal topologies. Like a Moebius strip,
they fold back on themselves, equating objects in space to drawn
connections on a surface through a continuous process of
transformation. Whether sketching sites around the world or
designing buildings, Predock has learned through years of
experience to condense multiple sensations and ideas into line and
color. Christopher Curtis Mead traces Predock's aesthetic impulse
back to the primal sense that through drawing we reach out to touch
the world.
Urban sketching has become one of the biggest art trends of the
last decade, with artists preferring to capture a scene on location
rather than relying on a photograph. Featuring 20 step-by-step
exercises, Sketch Club: Urban Drawing is your essential guide to
putting your drawing skills into practice on location. You'll learn
how to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes. Packed
with all the energy and inspiration of a drawing group, this is the
ideal book for anyone looking to take their urban drawing further.
Perfect your urban drawing skills and develop your own unique style
with professional urban sketcher, Phil Dean. Chapters include: -
Loosening Up - Building a Scene - Adding Contrast - Taking it
Further - Finishing Touches
Accompanying a major exhibition, this book brings together around
120 of the most significant examples of Victor Hugo's works on
paper. It features previously unpublished drawings and insightful
texts that reveal Hugo's extraordinary talents as a draftsman.
Remarkably spontaneous and receptive to the myriad possibilities of
medium and materials, Hugo produced experimental and enigmatic
compositions, from haunting renditions of castles and ruins to
ethereal and abstract forms and stains. This volume includes essays
which place Hugo's drawings within the context of artistic
movements in 19th-century France, closely examine his cosmic
landscapes and visions of the night, delve into Hugo's processing
of ideas and imagination, and analyze a central pair of opposing
forces in his work-stones and stains. This lavishly illustrated
book presents the full breadth of Hugo's talent. Hugo's drawings
afford a greater insight into the creative brilliance that brought
forth some of the most indelible stories of all time.
Each volume in this series contains 48 sheets with drawings printed
on professional drawing paper in very light grey lines, encouraging
you to trace and vary and to add colour. The images are a mix of
detailed drawings and basic templates that leave plenty of space
for your own creativity. The 180 g/m2 paper is acid-free, lightfast
and age-resistant. It is suitable for most colouring techniques,
including pencil, crayon, marker, ink and water colour.
In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd
sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso
(1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many
publications about his drawings that have tended to focus on
particular periods of his career, this stunning volume specifically
examines how drawing serves as the vital thread connecting all of
Picasso's art, just as it also links his private world with his
public persona of which he was becoming increasingly aware in his
later years. Picasso and the Art of Drawing ultimately showcases
how the basis of the titular artist's style as painter, sculptor,
printmaker, and designer was manifestly achieved through drawing.
Distributed for Modern Art Press
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a
world-wide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his
series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. The
films introduced a significant character in contemporary fiction:
Soho Eckstein, a Highveld mining magnate and Kentridge's alter ego.
In The Soho Chronicles, Kentridge's brother, Matthew, shares a
never-before-seen perspective on both William and Soho that sheds
new light on the creator and his alter ego. Richly illustrated, the
book includes a special feature that connects with smartphones and
tablets. In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, William
Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris bring us an unprecedented
collaboration using the pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East
Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation. Kentridge contributes forty
landscape drawings in response to the transient terrain mining,
while Morris plumbs the text of the cash book to generate a unique
narrative account, drawing together the stories of migrant laborers
and charting the flows of capital and desire.
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