Sketch Book for the Artist
DRAWING YOUR DOG Be bold in this exercise. Character is better captured drawing quickly with confidence than working slowly, con ...
THE ELONGATION AND BUOYANCY of a group of turtles is fascinating to observe. Beyond the glass wall of the aquarium, they stretch ...
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Dry Birds THESE ARE THE ARTICULATED BONES of a kiwi and a house- martin drawn in a museum using a steel pen, India ink, and wate ...
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Plants and Gardens BASILIUS BESLER Botanist and apothecary who compiled the Hortus Eystettensis —-the largest and most influenti ...
PLANTS AND GARDENS Botanical Studies THE SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF A BOTANICAL DRAWING lies in its subtle union of beauty, detail, and ...
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH Scottish architect designer painter; and founder of the Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh's flair had a ...
Jeweled Gardens AMONG DRAWINGS FROM the Middle East we find exquisite stylization of form and upright formality in pictorial spa ...
AKHLAQ-I RASUL ALLAH This is a detail of a page from an 18th-century Turkish manuscnpt a book of religious ethics written in Ara ...
PLANTS AND GARDENS Fast Trees IN CONTRAST TO THE QUIET, formal detail of other drawings in this chapter, these powerful fast tre ...
PIET MONDRIAN Dutch Pure abstract painter preoccupied with line and plane relationships. With increasing austerity, Mondrian ban ...
PLANTS AND GARDENS Graphite and Erasers GRAPHITE, FROM THE GREEK word graphein (to write), is a soft and brittle carbon. It was ...
Helleborus corsicus (Corsican hellebore) DIFFUSER: Traditional tool for applying liquid fixative, or to spray mists of ink. ER ...
PLANTS AND GARDENS Cropping and Composition MANY STUDENTS WILL START a drawing in the middle of the paper. Focused on the shape ...
Off-center and diagonal Here I held my viewfinder so the fig appeared upper-left in the space, its stem and shadow framing a whi ...
Negative Space UNCONSCIOUSLY WE ASSESS spatial relationships all the time to guide ourselves through the world. But how often do ...
Spaces between leaves Here I drew only spaces, adding one to another until the leaves were revealed. Besides looking at negative ...
Fig Tree WALKING IN THE ALPUJARRAS in Andalucia, Spain, I drew a bare fig tree clinging to the wall of an almond grove; a perfec ...
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