Sketch Book for the Artist

PAUL THOMAS British contemporary artist whose epic graphic work questions and reflects upon issues of European identity, values, ...

GODS AND MONSTERS Hauntings THE EXPLORATION AND DEPICTION of the unknown is a Grandville has drawn a scurrying zoo of half-known ...

JEAN IGNACE ISIDORE GERARD ("GRANDVILLE") French graphic artist and political satirist. This image is from one of Grandville's b ...

Convolutions THESE CONVOLUTED DRAWINGS were made almost 500 years at a touch. His entire drawing wrestles and weaves the viewer' ...

OONA GRIMES British contemporary artist and professor of printmaking at the Ruskin School, Oxford, and the Camberwell and Slade ...

GODS AND MONSTERS Brushes THE BRUSH IS A VOLUPTUOUS and delicate weights, thicknesses, materials, all perfect drawing tool exten ...

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Brush Marks A SINGLE BRUSH will make an enormous range of marks damp or dry), and above all whether the brush is depending upon ...

Gritty texture The details of the largest creatures below and opposite show the granular texture of Chinese block ink, and the w ...

Goya's Monsters THESE LITTLE CREATURES of ink and invention were born out of animal and bird studies. I borrowed small and fragi ...

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Goya's Monsters WITH CUNNING BRILLIANCE, Goya often invented his monsters out of characters seen in other painters' works, showi ...

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THIS IS A SERIES OF CARTOONS I made some years ago, little comments on politeness and sexual politics, drawn rapidly and with gr ...

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GLOSSARY Glossary Accidental drawing Random, chance mark-making. Acid-free paper Paper with a neutral pH that will not darken or ...

metal line. Hairspray is an effective and inexpensive alternative. Focus 1 .The degree to which detail is defined. 2. A point of ...

together optically, creating more vibrant effects than if the same colors were physically mixed together with a brush. Pouncing ...

Index Page numbers in italics refer to captions and illustrations INDEX B A Abe. Mamaru 104, 220, 230 The Physical Space 220 abs ...

D Dada 139 Daumien Honore 198 Caricature of a Woman 198,198 Degas, Edgar 162 depth, to suggest 177 see also perspective diagonal ...