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Instruction in this color-illustrated book introduces three of the most commonly used dry media for drawing and sketching. Roughly the first one-third of this art students' manual explains the properties and uses of charcoal, sanguine crayon, and chalk, and demonstrates how to get started with them on art projects. Information here includes recommended papers, ways of making strokes, shading, color blending, tonal range, and correcting mistakes. The book's remaining two-thirds presents a series of 16 practical exercises that employ all three media. Exercises include creating chiaroscuro (shades and shadows), drawing still-lifes and landscapes, mastering perspective, drawing nudes, and making portraits. Here is a practical art class instruction manual that can also be used as a self-teaching book by ambitious amateur artists. Full-color illustrations on nearly every page.
Table of Contents:
Basic Concepts
Materials for Drawing
Starting Out
Basic Considerations
Line, Shade, and Color
Blending
Tone and Tonal Range
Gradation
Tonal Values
The Sketch
Shading and Coloring
Blending and Rubbing in Practice
When Corrections Are Necessary
Charcoal on Colored Paper
Color on Colored Paper
Practical Exercises
Cloth with Chiaroscuro
Still Life Based on Geometric Forms
Volume Effect in a Still Life
Still Life with Highlights
Still Life on Medium-Tone Paper
Sketching with Charcoal
Mediterranean Agave with Blue Chalk
Landscape at Dusk
Perspective Exercise
Two Figures
Male Nude
Nude Drawn with Shadows
Female Nude
Value Study of a Figure
Portrait of a Child
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
Glossary
Paperback / 96 Pages / 8 1/2" x 12" / 2002
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