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How to Draw and Paint
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780890094006
The aim of all artists is to extend their skills and knowledge. How to Draw and Paint sets out to achieve this by providing the expert guidance needed to experiment successfully with the full range of subjects and media.
The information is provided by a team of leading experts, all well-equipped to answer the problems and needs of the amateur artists and bridge he gap between ambition and achievement.
How To Draw and Paint covers the most common visual themes: landscape and seascape, still life, nature (animals, birds, flowers, plants and trees), in all the most popular media - oil, acrylic, water-color, tempera and gouache, pencil, pen and ink - and analyses in depth the various problems and techniques involved in producing finished paintings and drawings.
Each painting and drawing in the book is illustrated in color at every significant stage to enable the artist or student to follow the work from conception to completion. The combination of these illustrations (over 1500) and the clear, concise text provides the reader with the means to progress confidently from one stage to the next whatever the medium or subject involved.
The aim of all artists is to extend their skills and knowledge. How to Draw and Paint sets out to achieve this by providing the expert guidance needed to experiment successfully with the full range of subjects and media.
The information is provided by a team of leading experts, all well-equipped to answer the problems and needs of the amateur artists and bridge he gap between ambition and achievement.
How To Draw and Paint covers the most common visual themes: landscape and seascape, still life, nature (animals, birds, flowers, plants and trees), in all the most popular media - oil, acrylic, water-color, tempera and gouache, pencil, pen and ink - and analyses in depth the various problems and techniques involved in producing finished paintings and drawings.
Each painting and drawing in the book is illustrated in color at every significant stage to enable the artist or student to follow the work from conception to completion. The combination of these illustrations (over 1500) and the clear, concise text provides the reader with the means to progress confidently from one stage to the next whatever the medium or subject involved.
320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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Stan Smith
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Stan Smith (1929-2001) was trained at St Albans School of Art and the Royal College of Art and pursued a distinguished career as painter, author and teacher. His long teaching career included periods at the London College of Printing and the Royal College of Art and culminated in 1986 in the headship of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford where he had taught since 1979.
Stan Smith (1929-2001) was trained at St Albans School of Art and the Royal College of Art and pursued a distinguished career as painter, author and teacher. His long teaching career included periods at the London College of Printing and the Royal College of Art and culminated in 1986 in the headship of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford where he had taught since 1979.
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April 19, 2012
Helpful guide to drawing and painting useful if you've never picked up a brush before.
August 23, 2016
A good guide to how to use pencil crayons and pastels.
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