Sketch Book for the Artist

ANCIENT CARVINGS Many ancient cultures have made and left behind drawings and texts carved into stones or animal bone, such as t ...

ABSTRACT LINES Writing Time SINCE THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, abstract artists and composers have striven to break down old pictoria ...

SYLVANO BUSSOTTI Italian avant-garde composer and principal 20th- century exponent of the graphic score. This is a page from Due ...

ABSTRACT LINES Chants and Prayers WHEN ABSTRACT LINES are organized in repetition, they make a visual and physical echo that tou ...

STEPHEN P.HUYLER Photographer art historian, cultural anthropologist, lecturer on the subjects of Indian art and Indian women's ...

Compositions ABSTRACT DRAWINGS ARE LARGELY or entirely free from figurative representation—that is, free from the direct imaging ...

PAUL KLEE Swiss painter and sculptor (see also p.31). Klee painted, drew, philosophized, and wrote copiously about the natures a ...

"When all pictorial elements come together in pleasing and perfect balance, they are just." ABSTRACT LINES Being "Just" A SENSE ...

WHERE TO START Take ten sticks of equal length, painted black. Within a rectangle on a flat sheet of paper set about making a co ...

SETTING UP This lesson in collage is a direct continuation of the compositional lines made in the previous class. Once the ten p ...

WHAT TO DO COLLAGE Lay the final step of the previous lesson (p.228) in front of you. Cut six small rectangles the same proporti ...

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Zen Calligraphy HITSUZENDO, A MODERN JAPANESE meditative art form inspired by the teachings of Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888), is th ...

Nocturnes IN THIS QUARTET of semi-abstract drawings made with India ink, discord is balanced against rhythm to create mood. Line ...

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MARTIN SCHONGAUER German painter and engraver who settled to work in Colmar Alsace. Schongauer is best known for his prints, whi ...

GODS AND MONSTERS Marks of Influence MYRIAD CHAINS RUN THROUGH ART HISTORY, marking the a wave to join Achilles' chase of Hector ...