Drawing & Painting Buildings

by Richard S. Taylor

"Drawing & Painting Buildings" is a comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape.Detailed artworks in a range of styles and media are thoroughly annotated to demonstrate key techniques and important details.It includes thorough studies of a wide range of different architectural styles, from town houses and rural cottages to churches and continental cafes.Taylor's own exquisite drawings and paintings demonstrate the quality of the results that can be achieved by following his helpful guidance and advice.

Genres: Art

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2005

Reviews

[Parka · Rating 4 out of 5]

(More pictures on my blog)

I bought this book to help with my outdoor sketches.

The book is roughly divided into three parts. The first talks about the materials. The examples featured mainly uses pencils, ink and watercolour. The second part looks at drawing small subjects like bricks, tiling, textures. The last part explores various building styles.

The coverage on perspective is very basic. There are the usual 1, 2 and 3 point perspective all covered in 6 pages. I was expecting more from a book on buildings. There aren't any tips on dealing with tricky perspective, like drawing buildings with vanishing points off the paper.

There are plenty of drawing tips accompanying the examples. Those are helpful and the techniques are easy to follow.

The downside of the book is it doesn't teach you how to observe proportions, and the examples are mostly on observational drawings. Those with basic drawing knowledge would gain more from this book.

[Nuno · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice book. The author shows how to draw buildings and architectural stuff by using several media (graphite, ink, watercolor). He gives very interesting advices and proposes several final projects which cover the most representative styles of buildings.