An endearing, affectionate portrayal of “man's best friend,” these pages offer dog lovers a captivating collection of canine-inspired artwork created through the centuries. Looking across art history at exceptional paintings, drawings, and sculptures from around the world, the book shows our four-le..
Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects, particularly animals. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of the most beautiful and fascinating birds from around the world with a comprehensive, step-by-step ap..
Presidents and baseball players, movie stars and pioneers are all on the drawing board in this unique book of art instruction. Author: Ames, Lee J. Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0385234325 ISBN-13: 9780385234320..
Techniques for Creating Dynamic Characters Scenes and Stories! You want to draw comics like a pro Now you can draw them better than a pro! Most comic artists today have drawn superhero after superhero says author Al Bigley they ve almost forgotten how to draw without tons of overreaching shading and..
This book is based on a drawing system that the author developed and has taught for 12 years at New York's School of Visual Arts. Anatomy books usually start students off with the fleshed figure, analyzing its internal and external appearance but offering no specific procedure for drawing it. This s..
Draw Naturally proposes a new way of learning to see and draw with shapes that makes the process of drawing as simple as possible. Artists learn to translate three-dimensional subjects into big shapes, then to gradually add dimensionality and develop detail, an approach that is particularly effectiv..
Portrait and figure studies need convincing hands and feet to really come alive, but they can be hard to get right. Drawing and Painting Hands and Feet is the only book published that demonstrates, step by step, how to tackle these notorious trouble spots, the most difficult parts of the anatomy for..
Everyone who paints or draws portraits worries most about one thing: getting an accurate likeness. But getting a likeness doesn't take genius and isn't based on a bag of tricks. It's really a matter of learning to use a logical procedure, based on careful observation of the subject, and then lots of..
In Drawing and Painting Animals, exceptional artwork and step-by-step lessons help aspiring artists draw wildlife that’s not only accurate but also captures the personality of the animal!First, readers will find sage how-to advice for finding the right subjects, working on location, drawing from pho..
Christopher Hart, America’s best-selling author of art instruction books, tosses all that aside to make drawing animals truly amazingly easy, by simplifying animal anatomy so that artists can get the poses they really want. What does that animal look like as it moves, bends, twists, jumps, runs Sim..
This drawing tutorial from best-selling author Christopher Hart shows artists how to draw exaggerated musculature of super-sized figures in action poses. Author: Hart, Christopher Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823023982 ISBN-13: 9780823023981..
Based upon the author’s own successful workshops, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating dimension, adding accuracy, developing value, bal..
Drawings, exercises, and step-by-step demonstrations assist beginners and developing artists in mastering a variety of ink-rendering techniques and styles Author: Borgman, Harry Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0823013855 ISBN-13: 9780823013852..
In 12 detailed demonstrations, Petrie explains how a simple lead pencil can be manipulated to create finished landscape drawings that rival the beauty of works in any other medium. Author: Petrie, Ferdinand Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823026469 ISBN-13: 9..
Heralded as a revolutionary right-brain approach to figure drawing, this guide focuses on mentality rather than technique. The author presents personal reflections and advice on drawing what the eye sees instead of what the mind dictates. More than 180 black-and-white drawings and eight pages of col..
Mastery of light and shade - rendered with accuracy and expressive power - is the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting. Here is the first book on this essential subject, the product of years of study by one of the world's great teachers of drawing and an artist of international reno..
Understanding how the body moves is the key to rendering clothing, as world-renowned artist Hogarth demonstrates in this unique book. Author: Hogarth, Burne Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823015874 ISBN-13: 9780823015870..
With a history that stretches back to the hauntingly beautiful mummy portraits of Greco-Roman Egypt, encaustic art is now enjoying a renewal of popularity among artists and art lovers alike. Today, museums are staging exhibitions of encaustic art, workshops in the technique are thriving, and art col..
Gathers patterns for rugs, cushions, pillowcases, and footstools featuring designs based on ethnic textiles Author: Norden, Mary Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0823016056 ISBN-13: 9780823016051..
Suggests new ways to use contour, gesture, organization, light, and dark, and new techniques involving photographs, grids, and photocopiers, to produce innovative drawings Author: Kaupelis, Robert Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0823016188 ISBN-13: 97808230161..
• Interactive introduction to 6 famous artists: Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vassily Kandinsky,Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock• Hands-on approach to understandinggreat art• Parents and teachers need Art Explorers-ideal for homeschoolers, too!The Art Explorers series ..
Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist-celebrating fre..
200 formulas for making paints, glazes, mediums, varnishes, grounds, fixatives, sizes, and adhesives for tempera, oil, acrylic, gouache, pastel, encaustic, fresco, and other painting techniques.Here is a unique reference book which every serious painter will find indispensable. Formulas for Painters..
Looks at the last period in Wright's career, reassessing his Usonian houses, his Taliesin working communities, and his plan for Broadacre City Author: Sergeant, John Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823071782 ISBN-13: 9780823071784..