Designed for beginning and amateur artists, this guide to the essentials of drawing features comprehensive, easy-to-follow lessons and more than 500 detailed illustrations.
88 royalty-free drawings of 40 plants and flowers Daffodil, Apple and other more or less familiar species distinguished by their grace, impeccable draftsmanship, and botanical accuracy.
Any artist wishing to practice figure drawing or to understand the body's movement will do well to study the interaction of muscles with bone structure.
"e;Quick sketching"e; stimulates the artist's ability to rapidly capture a subject's features, expressions, and movements as they are actually happening.
Thousands of years after man first recorded his impressions of animals on cave walls, artists are still attempting to reproduce images of these incredibly diverse creatures of land, sea, and air.
The history of glass and glass decoration extends back at least to the ancient Egyptians, who made small vessels of dark glass and decorated them with glass threads of contrasting colors.
Noted artist, author and educator shows how to draw every major outdoor subject land, greenery, skies, building, people, cities, and more in all the major drawing media: pencils, pen and ink, brush and ink, felt pens, charcoal, Rembrandt to Wyeth.
All those concerned with goldsmithing, silversmithing, rare metal objects, or metal scientific instruments, or their repair or restoration will be delighted to find this bible of their craft available again in a new edition.
The combined training and experience of the authors of this classic in the varied activities of painting conservation, cultural research, chemistry, physics, and paint technology ideally suited them to the task they attempted.
An indispensable and easy-to-follow companion for the intermediate art student, this concise guide focuses on how to capture the natural representation of the human hand in all its forms and motions.
Artist, illustrator, and teacher Hugh Laidman shows how simple and rewarding it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects the male and female figures.
In this step-by-step guide for beginning and intermediate artists, an expert teacher shows students how to see an animal in its simplest form and capture its essential character in a drawing.
In this essential guide to the basic principles of drawing the human figure, Poganyone of the leaders of the Golden Age of Illustrationshows readers the path to artistic mastery.
Only a thoroughly accomplished artist such as Borough Johnsona nineteenth-century landscape and genre paintercould manage to illuminate the technique of pencil drawing in these exquisitely simple terms.
In this generously illustrated guide, newly revised and updated, a well-known American sculptor shares his forty years of experience working with welded sculpture techniques.
A valuable guide by a well-known teacher and artist, this volume abounds in expert advice on methods and techniques for drawing animals, offering 26 lessons with step-by-step drawings of wild and domestic creatures.
Written by an expert art teacher, this visual drawing dictionary offers thousands of instructive illustrations in alphabetical order from abdomen to zodiac.
A facility with pencil drawings is a valuable asset for painters in oil and watercolors, and a high-quality pencil sketch ranks as the artistic equal of the best painting.
This book gives a clear and complete picture of every aspect of press operation and silk screen technique from individually operated manual presses to modern automatic presses capable of turning out 2,0003,000 impressions an hour and indicates its great versatility and range of applications.
Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats, skies, and picturesque harbors.
A graduate of the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, acclaimed artist and illustrator Victor Perard emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and taught at New York City's Cooper Union for twenty years.
