About the Authors
Dean Fisher(Milford, CT) is an instructor at the Silvermine
Guild Arts Center, where he teaches drawing and painting.
He is a graduate of the American Academy of Art in
Chicago, Illinois, and has been featured in individual and
group exhibitions around the United States and in Europe.
He has exhibited at the Tatistcheff Gallery in New York
City and most recently with Hirschl & Adler Modern, also
in New York City.Josephine Robinson(Milford, CT) also teaches at the
Silvermine Guild Arts Center. A London native, she received
her art education in the United Kingdom and previously
taught at the University of Tennessee. Her work has been
exhibited in London; Chicago, Illinois; Greenwich and New
Haven, Connecticut; and Knoxville, Tennessee.Acknowledgments
We hope we have created a book which will inspire the reader, through the ideas and
imagery presented, to find the process of becoming a skilled artist less frustrating and more
enjoyable.
We would like to acknowledge the contribution of all the artists who took part in this
project by generously allowing us to reproduce their work.
Also, thanks to our editors Pam Mourouzis and Donna Wright from Wiley Publishing
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