Drawing and drawings Books
Skira Edith Spira: Horizons 2000 - 2020
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£22.50
Schilt Publishing b.v. I Am Alive
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£32.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Optic Nerve and Ruffini Ending
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle As it is Done, 57 Contemplations
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£16.62
MER Paper Kunsthalle Cylinder 3
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£11.78
MER Paper Kunsthalle Urban Cave Drawings: Volume 1
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle I, the Dog of My Master
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£58.50
MER Paper Kunsthalle Coin Perdu
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£23.75
Indiana University Press The Impossible Arises
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mortensen's book is a captivating and unique combination of art history and philosophical reflection. It will fascinate any thoughtful reader and is required reading for anyone interested in the genre of "impossible pictures." Someone who reads the book will never see such pictures in quite the same way again."—Graham Priest, The Graduate Center, City University of New York"Whoever believes that thinking about the impossible must be itself impossible, should read this book. Combining art, art history, logic and philosophy, the reader will explore the richly structured world of impossibilia. The book's title is indeed true: Chris Mortensen makes the impossible arise."—Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel"This is a beautiful book about impossible pictures and the people who draw them. Art, mathematics, philosophy, and history meet in a huge gallery of mind-bending paradoxical images. Mortensen brings long experience and a light touch as he guides us through this strange corner of geometry."—Zach Weber, University of OtagoTable of ContentsPrefacePart One: Oscar Reutersvärd1. Introducing Oscar2. More Oscar3. What Did Oscar Think He Was Doing?4. Critique of Oscar's Philosophy5. On Encountering Oscar Reutersvärd, by Catherine SpeckPart Two: M. C. Escher6. Escher and the Penroses Discover Each Other7. How to Talk About Weird Things8. Escher and ImpossibiliaPart Three: Contemporaries9. Richard Pybus10. Bruno Ernst11. Those Who Followed After, a Chronology12. ConclusionAppendix: The Collection by Bruno Ernst of Drawings and Letters from Oscar Reutersvärd in The Lilly Library at Indiana UniversityReferences
£35.10
Yale University Press Diary of Joseph Farington Index Index Volume
Book SynopsisThis index volume to Joseph Farrington's diary provides access to Farington's fascination with criminal trials, elections and frequent Royal scandals of the day, as well as the recurrent subject of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in Europe.
£80.75
Yale University Press Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art
Book SynopsisThe Princeton University Art Museum's collection of Spanish drawings includes masterworks by artists such as Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), and Salvador Dali (1904-1989). In this book, each of the 95 drawings is reproduced in colour, often accompanied by comparative illustrations.
£31.50
Yale University Press Alice Aycock Drawings
Book SynopsisAlice Aycock emerged onto New York art scene in 1970s and is known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness and to science and cosmology. This book explores her drawings, which include elements of mirage, and science, and evoke both abstract thinking and bodily sensation.Trade Review“Fineberg (Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being) fills out the body of references that inform Aycock’s drawings and emphasizes the capaciousness of her curiosities. Fineberg’s tone is clear and elucidating, while also capturing his subject’s deep sense of play.”—Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *“Including over one hundred works, Some Stories Are Worth Repeating is the first comprehensive exploration of Alice Aycock’s creative process.”—College Art Association, Committee on Women in the Arts * College Art Association, Committee on Women in the Arts *
£999.99
Yale University Press Edward Ruscha
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£135.00
Yale University Press Traces of Survival
Book SynopsisThis compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, these 350 drawings were created by some of the country's 1.8 million refugees, providing a necessary outlet for their immense suffering and struggles associated with being temporarily displaced from their vocations as lawyers, teachers, farmers, and mothers. Originally presented as an exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale, this publication features a large group of these drawings exclusively selected by the artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Harnessing the power of visual art as a means for both personal expression and socio-political awareness, this innovative book represents the humanistic effort to provide a voice for the underrepresented and their unimaginable strife. Mercatorfonds is donating all profits from the sale of this book to the refugee camps in Iraq. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£17.99
Yale University Press Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Drawing Menil
Book SynopsisThe definitive six-volume catalogue raisonné of the drawings of one of the most importantartists working today Six decades of both iconic and intimate works by Jasper Johns (b. 1930), who is still producing at the age of 88, are given their full due in this magnificent multi-volume publication. Featuring exquisite full-page illustrations of all 813 known drawings by Johns, more than 200 of which have not been published or exhibited, the volumes demonstrate how Johns has been instrumental in elevating and establishing drawing as a major medium in contemporary art, and his drawings chart his artistic interests and aesthetic evolution. Five volumes are dedicated to the drawings, documenting materials and listing exhibition and publication histories, and the large-scale reproductions feature special production details. These include the use of special inks, such as a combination with silver for graphite works and custom mixes to represent particular colors, ensuring that the reproducti
£585.00
Yale University Press French Drawings from the Age of Claude Poussin
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£45.00
Random House USA Inc Art of Tattoo
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£17.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Drawing
Book SynopsisDrawing relies on a clear vision. It also requires thought which, in, turn, builds understanding. Drawing cannot be detached from seeing and thinking about the fundamental nature of the subject matter being represented. The knowledge and understanding gained through drawing from life directly enhances our ability to draw from the imagination.Table of ContentsDrawing: Process and Product. Line: The Essence of Drawing. Shape: The Definition of Form. Depth: The Art of Illusion. Envisioning: Drawing From Imagination. Speculation: Drawing and Creativity. Bibliography. Index.
£37.76
Harvard University Press Audubon Early Drawings
Book SynopsisIn 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon fled violence in Haiti and France to take refuge in America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was a U.S. citizen reinventing himself as a naturalist and artist. The drawings he made in this decade, of specimens collected in France and in America, are published here for the first time in large format and full color.Trade ReviewAudubon: Early Drawings is a record of nature and of Audubon’s own artistic apprenticeship—we can watch Audubon becoming Audubon. The earliest drawings—done in watercolor and, later, pastel—are simple profiles of birds silhouetted against the blank page with little in the way of natural context. They are delicate, hesitant, almost childlike renderings. Later drawings—made after Audubon had invented his celebrated technique of pinning dead birds into naturalistic poses—are more lifelike and animated, more confidently rendered. These look toward the fully realized images of The Birds of America, with their intense drama and implied narratives. Even at an early stage this self-taught artist possessed a powerful sense of color and a keen sensitivity to the way light can model a form. Yet we see him reaching the limits of his technique in his almost-but-not-quite depiction of the male wood grouse’s variegated plumage. Mastery would come later. Each rendering in Audubon: Early Drawings gets both a full-page reproduction and a facing-page commentary. About a bird known as the Willet, shown with a worm squirming in its beak, we read: ‘The May date of this drawing tells us that Audubon crossed paths with the Willet during the spring migration between its wintering grounds on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and the Caribbean and its breeding areas in wetlands of the interior West.’ We are right there with Audubon, his traveling bird and the unlucky worm. -- Eric Gibson * Wall Street Journal *Before [Birds of America] made him famous, [Audubon] had spent decades trying to find a way to make his birds appear to fly off the page. This collection of 116 early drawings, published together for the first time, shows that while his early birds didn’t quite take off, they did have a delicacy and charm that somehow went missing from his later masterworks. -- Stephanie Pain * New Scientist *One of the great pleasures of Audubon: Early Drawings, with its lavish reproductions and scientific notes, is that it allows us to see the naturalist turning into the artist, laboring not merely to give his birds scientific accuracy but an almost uncanny life force. -- Jonathan Rosen * New York Times Book Review *This is the first book to collect and reproduce the pastel, ink, and watercolor studies from early in [Audubon’s] career—it’s not hard to glean the first principle that makes his illustrations so effective: spareness. Although Audubon usually sketches in some contextual clues—a tree stump, some sand, three or four leaves—his pages are remarkably blank. What he is really studying is the bird, so Audubon surrounds the specimen—the osprey, the bullfinch, or the linnet—in white, letting his notes take care of the habitat, migration patterns, and the rest. Audubon preemptively limits the context, isolating and foregrounding the more salient details so we know at a glance what’s important and what isn’t. -- Dushko Petrovich * Boston Globe *In 1805, Jean-Jacques (later to become John James) Audubon, the son of a chambermaid who worked on his father’s plantation in Saint-Domingue, was a refugee in America from revolutionary violence in Haiti and France, and still many years away from the celebrity he was later to achieve as a wildlife illustrator. Yet, as Audubon: Early Drawings clearly demonstrates, he used the next ten years to lay the foundations for the mastery he was to acquire in bird illustration. As these drawings, which include European as well as American species, eloquently show, he had above all mastered the art of imbuing the dead specimens from which he worked with a vitality that makes them look for all the world like birds seen in the wild. -- Peter Davies * Literary Review *These drawings are interesting not just because of their seemingly naive charm, but also because of their great technical distance from the work produced in Birds of America. In this collection, the birds appear in more or less stilted poses, usually in profile. They appear almost always on an otherwise empty page. Audubon offers terse notes to describe their habits, a practice he dropped in Birds. -- Cornelia Dean * New York Times *These 116 early Audubons from the collections of Harvard University provide a perspective on the development of the artist’s mature style. In accordance with established ornithological presentation of the time, most of the birds are stiffly posed in profile with little or no background. Some drawings, however, show their subjects in action or include details of diet or habitat—approaches Audubon took to portray specimens as ‘drawn from Nature’ in his monumental The Birds of America. The watercolors and pastels of the European species were executed in France in 1805 and 1806, and those of the North American birds date from 1805 to 1821. The captions discuss when and where Audubon collected the specimens. Morris, Rhodes, and Edwards contribute essays on the history of the drawings, the artist’s life, and his science. * Science *Drawings [Audubon] made during the period leading up to the publication of his famous The Birds of America are held by the Houghton Library and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and are published together here for the first time in large format and full color. Audubon biographer Richard Rhodes provides background to their creation. Also included are transcriptions of Audubon’s annotations to the drawings and ornithological commentary on Audubon’s depictions of birds found in Europe and the Eastern United States in the early nineteenth century, some now rare or extinct. * Antiques and Fine Art *Prior to the publication of Birds of America, John James Audubon spent decades honing his talents. Audubon: Early Drawings sheds insight into Audubon’s trajectory as an artist and naturalist, offering 116 bird and mammal images from the fledgling stages of his career… A wide-eyed belted kingfisher is charming with a disheveled crown of slate blue plumes. Meanwhile, the composition of a Carolina parakeet perched among pecan branches is appealing not only for its organic symmetry but for its value as one of the few visual records of the now-extinct species—a reminder of Audubon’s timeless relevance. -- Julie Leibach * Audubon *Impressive in its oblong shape and handsomely slip-cased in cloth, Audubon: Early Drawings represents the first large-format full-color publication of the Harris Collection [in the Houghton Library at Harvard University], comprising 116 depictions of species Audubon collected in the United States and Europe, dating primarily between 1805 and 1832. Because they are the product of his own hand, and not the intermediary hands of engravers and colorists, these drawings convey a wonderful immediacy. Graphite, ink, and pastels were his preferred mediums—pastels proving early on more satisfying and more easily manipulated than watercolors. And by noting the dates of each work we witness the gradual refinement of his technique: before 1810 the meticulous attention to details of feathers, feet, and claws seems almost naive against the relative flatness of his colors. By 1810, however, we see the emerging hand of the master in such finely delineated and colored works as the Frog Eater (Redshouldered Hawk) of 1810 and the pair of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers of 1812. * The Magazine Antiques *John James Audubon’s distinctive role in American ornithology, natural history, and art has long been acknowledged by the numerous volumes that have been published on his life, career, and accomplishments. This handsome volume further contributes to an understanding of the diverse genius and artistic creativity of Audubon by presenting, in meticulously printed colored plates, 116 of his earliest bird drawings (American and European) from the collections of the Houghton Library and Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Beginning in 1805 with one of his earliest drawings, these plates allow readers to examine Audubon’s evolving style and skills as an ornithological artist. Each plate is accompanied by the name given the species by Audubon; the location where the bird was observed, or collected; and the date. Particularly interesting are the ornithological notes on the natural history and unique characteristics of the species included with each plate. These plates are known as the Harris Collection, and a brief but informative essay provides an introduction to this Harvard collection. -- P. D. Thomas * Choice *
£83.96
Harvard University Press David to Corot
Book SynopsisThe Harvard University Art Museums hold one of the world's finest collections of early 19th-century drawings; the nearly 500 works reproduced heremany published for the first timeinclude the most significant groups of drawings outside France by the masters of the age: David, Gericault, Ingres, Delacroix, and Prud'hon.Trade ReviewThe Fogg’s holdings of early 19th-century French drawings are a near embarrassment of riches. Along with the Ingres, the Fogg owns the most significant groups of drawings of David, Gericault, Delacroix and Prud’hon outside of France...‘David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum’ also celebrates the publication of a major catalog of the same name. Thirty years in the making, it is the grand effort of the legendary curator of drawings and former director of the Fogg, Agnes Mongan...[A] landmark. -- Nancy Stapen * Boston Globe *[A] masterful piece of scholarship...Author Agnes Mongan and a host of contributing scholars assembled this catalog over the course of decades, creating a work whose text offers as much to the historian and biographer as its handsome plates do to fanciers of draftsmanship. For those who can't travel to Boston to visit this superb collection, Mongan has created a portable resource...whose first-rate illustrations capture the nuances of touch that are so much the appeal of drawing for connoisseurs. More than 300 drawings are illustrated in black and white, including works by such major figures as Delacroix, Gericault and Ingres...To see them all reproduced in this catalog is a bit like peeking over the artist's shoulder as he sketched. -- Chris Waddington * Lagniappe *[Mongan’s] catalog includes a detailed, interesting, and scholarly text, which accompanies the reproduction of each drawing. The provenance is included for each drawing, as well as an extensive bibliography of books and an appendix of historically relevant exhibitions. The book provides a wonderful visit to the Fogg’s internationally renowned collection of these 19th-century French drawings. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by James Cuno Preface Note to the Catalogue CATALOGUE Appendix A. The Leclere and Percier-Fontaine Albums Appendix B. Drawings Aquired since 1979 Bibliography Exhibitions
£158.36
Princeton University Press Inessential Colors
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain""[Baudez’s] meticulous, methodical study will likely appeal more to scholars than to the general public, but no matter the audience, this extensively researched, richly illustrated book sheds new light on this overlooked aspect of architectural history and practice."---Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic"This richly illustrated, fascinating study of the nature of architectural drawing, and the conventions that have underlain it through time, is essential reading for those interested in buildings."---Benjamin Riley, New Criterion"A splendidly illustrated and deeply researched monograph. . . . The extraordinary value of Baudez’s research and publication lies precisely in its vast range, the prolixity of its all-colour illustrations and archival references, that allow the reader to examine the evidence and parse the interpretations, and that opens up a historical examination of manual representation in an age when its overcoming by digital techniques has rendered it all but obsolete."---Anthony Vidler, Drawing Matter"Basile Baudez offers a riveting reading of architectural representations. By considering them over a long period and a wide geographic terrain, he offers a clear and erudite synthesis. Remarkably high-quality, renewed illustrations support this elegant study."---Alexia Lebeurre, CAA Reviews"A significant contribution to understanding the development of color drafting methodologies and their influences on architectural history."---Paul Emmons and Negar Goljan, Montreal Architectural Review"[Inessential Colors] differs from previous publications on this subject, which tend to focus more on polychromy in representations of buildings already in existence. A chapter on the materials and tools of the architect or drafter add much to the content." * Choice *"In Inessential Colors, Basile Baudez argues that the colors in architectural drawings serve three purposes: to imitate the world, to act as conventional signs for building materials and functions, and to move and delight—to affect—the viewer. . . . For anyone interested in the history and technique of architectural drawings, Basile Baudez’s very readable and beautifully illustrated book, which includes a detailed appendix titled 'The Draftsman’s Tools,' is highly recommended."---Martin Olin, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"This volume is a highly original and stimulating study of paper-based material culture. With an impressive sweep across forms, media, and cultural-geographic, boundaries, it does what we expect the best object-based scholarship to do. It helps us understand why an artifact of the past looks the way it does, and how that contributes to its meaning in its own society. . . . Inessential Colors’s strength lies in the novelty of its approach, the breadth of original works consulted, and the attentive examination of each one."---Claudia Funke, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America"The increasing complexity of building in combination with the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis challenges the traditional role of the architect as designer and asks us to reconsider what matters most in the built environment. At the same time, architecture today too exists in the maelstrom of digital images produced by humans and nonhumans alike sometimes at a considerable distance from actual buildings. Studies like Baudez’s book enrich this conversation by complicating our understanding of such omnipresent artifacts as colored representations of buildings, but also by reminding us that architecture and its image have always played multiple and sometimes contradictory roles."---Maarten Delbeke, H-Net Reviews"This impressive, thought-provoking book focuses on early modern presentation drawings of buildings . . . [asking] what the use of colour, or the absence of it, can tell us about the way architects communicated with patrons and the public. Wide-ranging in its coverage . . . the author demonstrates an extraordinarily broad command of early modern architecture in its different national settings."---Simon Pepper, Architectural History
£51.00
The Crowood Press Basic Drawing
Book SynopsisDrawing, the most basic of the visual arts, is often seen as a natural ability, but it can be learnt. Working from observation in pencil, pen, or charcoal helps you to see clearly, increases your visual awareness, and enhances your ability to design in two dimensions. The New English Art Club, an exhibiting society with a 125 year history, runs a school of drawing in which it tries to keep alive the tradition of working from life, which used to be taught in all art schools but is now almost extinct. Charles Williams Cert. RAS RWS NEAC, the current curator, brings together exercises, illustrations, demonstrations, and, above all, the attitude to drawing of the NEAC Drawing School in one comprehensive book. Williams links nineteenth-century artists and thinkers like Walter Sickert and John Ruskin with contemporary writers like Betty Edwards in an attempt to show that to draw is to be a part of a great, living tradition that the contemporary world of photography and digital technology wil
£14.24
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Thomas Moran
Book SynopsisThis illustrated catalogue of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an essay tracing the artist's 70-year career, a chronological, stylistic and geographical survey of his fieldwork, and an illustrated checklist of his 1080 sketches in public collections.
£999.99
University of Pittsburgh Press Knowing and Seeing Reflections on Fifty Years of Drawing Cities
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£64.46
Watson-Guptill Publications Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy
Book SynopsisA manual of techniques that visually simplify and refine the study of the body's muscles and skeleton into concepts that can easily be used by beginning and intermediate artists alike. It offers tips such as how to self-check the proportions of the head and body to make sure they are accurate.
£14.39
Watson-Guptill Publications Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy
Book SynopsisA book for the beginning artist. Based on a series of lessons that begin with the five basic shapes (circle, oval, square, cylinder and rectangle) combined with the five basic components of drawing (line, mass, perspective, light and shading), it progresses from the simplest forms to more complex, inanimate objects and organic, animate subjects.
£18.00
The Crowood Press Smoky Joes Book of Drawing Ponies
Book SynopsisEverything you ever wanted to know about drawing ponies is brought to life by a sparky pony character called Smoky Joe, and his friends, Trevor and Rosie (all based on real ponies). Jennifer Bell''s wonderful illustrations and advice on technique cover just about every form of drawing, from sketching from life, through to portraits, fantasy, and cartoons. She describes how to get the best results with pencils, felt tips, crayons, pen and ink, and pastels, and introduces the basics of anatomy, perspective, and proportion-all simplified and made fun for the younger audience.
£9.99
MP-NEV University of Nevada Atomic Comics Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume proves that 'small is beautiful' and can be significant. In only 136 pages, the late Szasz provides a fascinating account of the depiction of atomic warfare and energy in US and Japanese comics and cartoons. …Some of what Szasz reveals is downright scary: the extreme censorship of WW II and the devastating impacts of American nuclear testing and failures. … The inclusion of small press comics such as Leonard Rifas's EduComics testifies to the comprehensive nature of this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers." - CHOICE. CHOICE magazine Outstanding Academic Title in 2012
£17.56
Getty Trust Publications Taddeo and Federico ArtistBrothers in
Book SynopsisDuring the late sixteenth-century, Italian artist Federico Zuccaro created a series of drawings - twenty large sheets that depict the early life of his older brother Taddeo (1529-1566). This title shows the trials, tribulations, and eventual triumph of Taddeo as a young artist striving for success in Renaissance Rome.
£42.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc Basic Perspective Drawing
Book SynopsisThe best-selling guide now completely updated to include online tutorials! Basic Perspective Drawing introduces students, both those in formal design courses and self-learners, to the basic principles and techniques of perspective drawing.Table of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1 Overview 1 Chapter 2 Rendering Perspective Views from Observed Reality 19 Chapter 3 Plans, Elevations, and Paraline Projections 29 Chapter 4 Constructing Perspective Views 40 Chapter 5 Geometric Tools: Diagonals, Squares, and Cubes 79 Chapter 6 Sloping Planes and Surfaces 94 Chapter 7 Circles and Curved Surfaces 111 Chapter 8 Shadows and Reflections 145 Chapter 9 Freehand Sketching and Rapid Visualization 167 Chapter 10 The Figure in Perspective 179 Chapter 11 Shading and Rendering 191 Chapter 12 Aerial Perspective 201 Appendix A Examples of Perspective Views 209 Appendix B Notes on Studying and Teaching Perspective Drawing 261 Index 267
£50.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Drawing Geological Structures
Book SynopsisDespite the modern dominance of computer graphics programs and digital cameras, the ability todraw geological structures manually remains a necessity in academic geology and beyond. Drawings serve for quick and simple documentation in the field or at the microscope.Table of ContentsAbout the Author vii Preface ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Why Do We Need Drawings? 5 1.2 The Tools 11 1.3 Sizes of Drawings 12 1.4 Geological Versus Artistic Drawing 13 1.5 Drawing With Symbols 15 1.6 Realistic Drawing 21 1.7 The Fractal Geometry of Geological Fabrics 26 1.8 Basic Rules of Geological Drawing 29 References 30 2 Rock Thin Sections 33 2.1 Drawing as a Form of Microscopy 35 2.2 Drawing with Various Tools 35 2.3 Foundations of Thin-Section Drawing 36 2.4 Minerals and Their Characteristic Fabrics Under the Microscope 41 2.5 Sketches for Fast Documentation 52 2.6 Development of Precise Thin-Section Drawings 60 2.7 Digital Reworking of Manual Thin-Section Drawings 82 2.8 Digital Drawing 83 Summary 90 References 93 3 Specimen Sections 95 3.1 The Geological Message of a Drawing 95 3.2 Schematic Representation of Minerals 97 3.3 Schematizing Rocks and their Structures 100 3.4 Development of Drawings 104 3.5 Illustration on Different Scales 107 3.6 Detailed Drawings of Sample Cuts 110 Summary 116 4 Drawing Rock Structures in Three Dimensions 117 4.1 Foundations 118 4.2 The Development of Schematic 3D Drawings 125 4.3 Field Drawing 156 4.4 Digital Processing 169 4.5 Rules of Labeling 172 Summary 174 References 177 5 Geological Stereograms 179 5.1 Foundations 179 5.2 Orientation and Extension 181 5.3 Additions and Labeling 189 5.4 Digital Processing 193 Summary 195 References 196 6 Solutions 199 Index 207
£32.25
F&W Publications Inc Creative Colored Pencil
Book SynopsisThe first art instruction book devoted entirely to colored pencil as a liquid medium
£15.99
F&W Publications Inc Manga Workshop Characters
Book SynopsisThe manga universe is diverse--full of cute chibis, soulful romantics, cunning villains and sassy schoolgirls. Whether you want to tell love stories, create fantasy worlds or explore the drama of everyday life, you can do it with the help of self-taught manga artist and YouTube celebrity Sophie-Chan.
£15.99
F+W Media Inc Strokes of Genius 9
Book SynopsisCelebrating the best drawings by contemporary artists! The celebrated Strokes of Genius series follows the beautiful, ongoing story of contemporary drawing through the work and words of some of today's top artists.
£23.99
University Press of Mississippi Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art
Book SynopsisThe comic strip Gordo was published in U.S. newspapers for forty-four years (1941-1985). For almost all of this run its creator Gus Arriola was the most visible American of Mexican descent working as a syndicated cartoonist. At its peak Gordo appeared in 270 newspapers and was the more widely circulated and longer-running of only two American comic strips set in Mexico.Gordo recounted the humorous adventures and amorous preoccupations of a portly Mexican bean farmer, whose name, Gordo, means ""fat."" Among the supporting cast were his perspicacious nephew, the menagerie of their farm animals, and citizens of their village. Originally, the characters played to the stereotypes of Mexicans as portrayed by Hollywood and in popular culture.When Arriola realized that in the U.S. his comic strip was the only mass-circulation medium that portrayed Mexicans, he began taking pains to reflect accurately the traditions south of the border. Gordo was transformed forthwith, and its chubby hero became, more by accident than by plan, an ambassador for Mexico and its culture.Converting his protagonist to a tour guide in the 1960s, Arriola was able to regale American readers with many aspects of Mexican folklore, history, and art in an entertaining but informative fashion, winning awards and accolades for his efforts. Because animals and insects in the strip were among its stellar attractions, Arriola was creatively positioned to stump for ecological concerns. He was one of the earliest in popular culture to do so.Profusely illustrated with runs of the strip from various periods, the book traces Arriola's artistic evolution and celebrates the cartoonist as a supremely inventive stylist whose artwork always displays design qualities unusual for a comic strip. His stunning Sunday fiestas of color and design are exemplified with eight pages of full-color reproductions.This is the first book focused exclusively on Gus Arriola and the first that extensively examines the Mexican milieu as portrayed in American comics.
£29.96
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant
Book SynopsisAn exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of his time. This fresh assessment of the artist focuses on the role of drawing in his creative process and showcases Fragonard’s mastery and experimentation with drawing in a range of media, from vivid red chalk to luminous brown wash, as well as etching, watercolor, and gouache. Unlike many old master painters, Fragonard explored the potential of drawings as works of art in their own right, ones that permitted him to work with great freedom and allowed his genius to shine. The drawings featured here come from public and private collections in New York, balancing a mix of well-loved masterpieces, new discoveries, and works that have long been out of the public eye.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art (10/06/16–01/08/17)
£42.75
Getty Trust Publications Looking East – Rubens Encounter with Asia
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings. Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in 17th-century Europe. During his illustrious career as a court painter and diplomat, Rubens expressed a fascination with exotic costumes and headdresses. With his masterful handling of black chalk and touches of red, Rubens executed a compelling drawing that features a figure wearing Asian costume - a depiction that has recently been identified as Man in Korean Costume. Despite the drawings renown - both during Ruben's own lifetime and in contemporary art scholarship - the reasons why it was made and whether it actually depicts a specific Asian person remain a mystery. The intriguing story that develops involves a shipwreck, an unusual hat, the earliest trade between Europe and Asia, the trafficking of Asian slave, and Jesuit missionaries.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications The Learned Draftsman - Edme Bouchardon
Book SynopsisOne of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France,Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze).With five essays by experts on Bouchardon's sculpture and graphic arts, more than 140 catalogue entries, and a detailed chronology, this book aims to demonstrate the originality of Bouchardon's art within the cultural and social context of the period, while suggesting the subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman.This lavishly illustrated publication represents anunprecedented and thorough survey on this major andunique artist from the Age of Enlightenment, offering in-depth scholarship based on unpublished material detailingthe subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman.Trade Review"Excellent."--Art Newspaper
£52.25
Watson-Guptill Publications Perspective in Action
Book SynopsisUsing the graphic novel format, Perspective in Action features 33 easy-to-follow demonstrations to teach the major discoveries in perspective. Author and artist David Chelsea takes readers through the major perspective- related developments in history, teaching them how to re-create these same experiments by leading artists in all fields (including drawing, painting and sculpture). Covering a wide-range of mediums (pen and ink, paint, chalk, digital art, woodwork and more), Perspective in Action gives readers a more hands-on approach to perspective, as opposed to the usual theoretical presentations found in other books.Trade Review"Cleverly packaged in a graphic novel format, artist Chelsea's (Perspective! For Comic Book Artists) book covers all aspects of simple perspective drawing and depicts its more complex applications. Step-by-step sketching exercises, craft projects, and experiments re-creating historical breakthroughs in the form. This guide shows how to draw in one-, two-, three-, six-, and multiple-point perspective and how to build a camera obscura, an Ames room, and a cabinet of wonder. A chapter on motion perspective demystifies the science behind realistic animation. Chapters on distorted perspective and stereo vision are also included. VERDICT This fun-to-read guide is best suited to readers of intermediate artistic skill level."—Library Journal "This is a welcome, exhaustive introduction to the underlying structure of any drawing. It's like a lesson in perspective from Winsor McCay. It's about time we had a very human guide like this. Even old pros will use it." —Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit and author of Comics and Sequential Art "Perspective is the power to create worlds. Now, thanks to David Chelsea's Perspective! for Comic Book Artists, you can make that power your own. Don't miss this chance to master in a day what others have taken years to learn. You will never find a better book on this subject." —Scott McCloud, creator of Zot! and author of Understanding Comics"Perspective in Action is the most wide-ranging and authoritative book on perspective I've ever seen. David Chelsea examines every aspect of the subject imaginable, presenting it all in a graphic novel format that is both engrossing and easy to understand. For those who are serious about mastering perspective, this book is essential." —Mark Crilley, author of The Realism Challenge, The Drawing Lesson, Manga Art, and Mastering Manga and creator of Akiko Table of Contents CONTENTS Introduction.........................1 1 • Basics...........................3 2 • Beginnings.......................17 3 • Anamorphosis...................29 4 • Cabinets of Wonder...............59 5 • Six-Point Perspective............85 6 • Stereo Perspective...............113 7 • Motion Perspective..............155 Conclusion........................169
£15.19
Sixth & Spring Books Awesome Anime Characters
Book SynopsisThe Awesome Anime Characters booklet is the ultimate quick-reference guide to drawing anime's most exciting action characters.
£6.64
Sixth & Spring Books Cartooning Animals
Book SynopsisBestselling author Christopher Hart offers up a booklet filled with easy-to-follow instructions on drawing cartoon animals.
£6.64
The Crowood Press Ltd Drawing and Painting Cars
Book SynopsisThis practical and stimulating book introduces and showcases a wide range of motoring art styles. Recognising the importance of drawing and research, it explains the key components of a successful painting, looking particularly at light, perspective, drawing ellipses and the vehicle itself. Including over 150 finished paintings with full descriptions of how they were conceived and carried out, this beautiful book is sure to inspire both artist and buyers alike, and gives a unique insight into the work of a leading motoring artist.
£16.14
The Crowood Press Ltd Sketching Perspective
Book SynopsisPerspective is key to visualizing a space and communicating an idea to others. This book explains how to tackle perspective with hand sketching - how to turn a 3D scene into a 2D drawing successfully. Written for a wide range of professionals from architects to set designers, engineers to interior designers, it explains the principles of perspective clearly and how to communicate a vision successfully. Topics covered include: materials and equipment, specifically with drawing on location in mind; observational drawing using the body, arms and hands to help understand the spaces being drawn; perspective constructions for one and two vanishing points for interior and exterior drawings; panoramic views and aerial perspective - how to approach drawing a crowded scene/location; adding detail - whether creating atmosphere and expression, or adding figures for scale and finally, advice is given on drawing imaginatively and how to visualize your thoughts confidently. It is fully illustrated with examples of how to draw perspective in the urban and natural landscape.Trade ReviewSince I teach perspective as part of the Drawing course I am always interested in finding new ways to explain the subject. The book - Sketching Perspective - by Ilga Leimanis starts in a way I found inviting. Her examples seem free and spontaneous. Her perspective examples seem approachable rather than technically intimidating as some complex technical perspective drawings. There is a chapter called Reconstructing Space from Memory or Imagination - interesting. It's a topic I’ve never seen addressed in a book about perspective. I thought it was a good book and covered the subject well. -- Mark Leibowitz * NYC Urban Sketchers Newsletter *Ilga is an urban sketcher, so perspective is central to her craft. She also, as is common with the genre, works quickly and loosely, so you won’t find architectural or measured drawings here, and hooray for that. What mainly sets this apart from other books on perspective is the way Ilga uses the technique in very fluid drawings that capture character as much as appearance. Only you can decide whether this works for you but, if it does, it should be rather successful. -- Henry Malt * artbookreview The Artist *Through a series of well-explained sections, Ilga shows you how to look at the subject before you and to break each area down so that you understand completely how to tackle perspective with speed and confidence in a range of materials. -- Jane Stroud * Leisure Painter *
£16.14
Historic England Drawing for Understanding: Creating Interpretive
Book SynopsisThis guidance describes a method of recording historic buildings for the purpose of historical understanding using analytical site drawing and measuring by hand. The techniques described here have a long tradition of being used to aid understanding by observation and close contact with building fabric. They can be used by all involved in making records of buildings of all types and ages, but are particularly useful for vernacular buildings and architectural details which are crucial to the history of a building or site. . Record drawings are best used alongside other recording techniques such as written reports and photography or to supplement digital survey data. They can also be used as a basis for illustrations that disseminate understanding to wider audiences. Table of ContentsIntroduction Case Study 1 - Low Park, Alston Moor, Alston, Cumbria Fieldwork: site sketching and hand measuring Case Study 2 - 33 High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire Measured drawings Case Study 3 - Nappa Hall, Askrigg, North Yorkshire Bird’s-eye views, 3D drawings and reconstructions Case Study 4 - Old Manor House, Manningham, Bradford Completing the drawing Conclusion References Glossary Appendix: Drawing conventions
£35.14
Crocker Art Museum A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum
£28.50
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
Book SynopsisThis catalogue accompanies the first ever loan exhibition of drawings from Waddesdon Manor, the house that was built and furnished by Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-1989) to show off his works of art and to entertain the fashionable world.Most of the drawings gathered together for this exhibition have never been exhibited in pulbic and most have not been published. There are works by major French draughtsmen of the eighteenth century, including Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Nicolas Lancret, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Other artists are less familiar, Charles-Nicolas Cochin and Moreau le jeune among them, and it is hoped that this exhibition will introduce the visitor to the verve and originality of their work. The selection reflects the diversity of the Rothschild Collection and the overlapping preoccupations and unflagging curiosity of its creators. It encompasses observation and invention, academic learning and social comment, propaganda and reportage, and sheds light on the many different techniques and uses of drawing. It is hoped that scruntiny of these works outside their usual context will intrigue those that do not know Waddesdon, surprise those that do and give insight and pleasure to new audiences.
£23.75
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Rembrandt'S Mark
Book SynopsisThe Dresden collection’s singular group of Rembrandt works – about 20 drawings attributed to the master today and the nearly complete oeuvre of etchings– will provide the basis for this remarkable publication. It will have a particular focus on Rembrandt’s narrative compositions, printed self-portraits, studies of his wife Saskia, and will include works from all periods of his oeuvre plus prints and drawings by artists from his workshop and followers. The list of artists who understood Rembrandt as a dynamic authority and source of inspiration is long, reaching from his immediate followers to masters of the 18th century, from Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to Jonathan Richardson to the kindred spirit Francisco de Goya, into the 20th century and up to the present day. Examples include Edouard Manet, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Lovis Corinth, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, as well as Marlene Dumas and William Kentridge and artists from the GDR such as A.R. Penck. By including works by these artists, the exhibtion and catalogue foreground Rembrandt as one of the most important ‘artists’ artist’ of all time. Select juxtapositions will help the reader better understand the fi reworks of creativity that Rembrandt not only lit in his own time but those he continues to ignite today. Rembrandt remains eternally captivating, not only because of his radical choices and unconventional interpretations of Christian and profane pictorial subjects, but also because of his joy in experimentation, especially in the use of printing and drawing techniques, and his refl ective, humorous intellect, complemented by his sensually direct approach to the world. With a light hand, he broke open the conventions of his era. The pictorial worlds that he created with his free, decisive mark convey his near inexhaustible interest in nature as creation, whether it be the human exterior or interior, and off er a wealth of connecting points and constellations for other artists as well as for the viewer.
£33.25
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Modern Drawings: the Karshan Gift
Book SynopsisThis stunning catalogue presents for the first time an outstanding group of modern drawings by European and American masters, assembled by the late Howard Karshan and his wife, Linda, who recently presented the works to The Courtauld. Accompanying their exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, the catalogue features drawings by renowned artists including Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz.The Karshan gift is a significant addition to The Courtauld’s collection. The works demonstrate Howard and Linda Karshan's sensibility for the expressive power and rich variety of drawing as an art form. The drawings are characterised by innovative mark-making and distinctive use of line. Examples range from radical watercolours by Cézanne and highly expressive finger drawings in ink by Louis Soutter, to abstract compositions made by Henri Michaux whilst experimenting with Mescalin to explore the subconscious, and on to works by Twombly that further broadened the possibilities of draughtsmanship. The 25 drawings of the Karshan gift will be shown at The Courtauld Gallery when it reopens in late 2021, following a major transformation project. This catalogue will include an interview with Linda Karshan, two essays and a fully illustrated catalogue with detailed entries on each work.
£23.75
