ART STUDIO, Vol. 2, Basic Drawing 2

by James Watt

ART STUDIO, VOL 2, BASIC DRAWING 2 is the second in a series of art instruction books designed to help children learn to draw for themselves and to understand the genuine secrets that real artists use to plan and finish drawings. The books are specifically designed for children to use on their own, based on author's invaluable experience learned while teaching real children for over 25 years. Each volume expands on what was learned in the lessons of the previous volumes. Any child, 3rd grade and above, can easily use these books to understand and learn to draw well. These books are also excellent as home schooling texts for parents to use with their children from 1st grade and above. Uniquely, these books also introduce and explain to children to how logic works and how the this logic that is used in art is the very same logic used in mathematics and science. These books are unique in this aspect. Art, it turns out, is THE BEST way to begin to learn logic. The author, James Watt, was a commercial artist for decades in the Chicago area and used his experience as an artist and from teaching children to make these book easily accessible to any child, or adult, wishing to know how to draw. This material was routinely and successfully taught to children from 1st grade to adult. Anyone using this material will soon find drawing is both easily taught and learned by all.

123 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

James Watt, FRS, FRSE was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the rest of the world.

While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. He realised that contemporary engine designs wasted a great deal of energy by repeatedly cooling and reheating the cylinder. Watt introduced a design enhancement, the separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines. Eventually he adapted his engine to produce rotary motion, greatly broadening its use beyond pumping water.

Watt attempted to commercialise his invention, but experienced great financial difficulties until he entered a partnership with Matthew Boulton in 1775. The new firm of Boulton and Watt was eventually highly successful and Watt became a wealthy man. In his retirement, Watt continued to develop new inventions though none were as significant as his steam engine work. He died in 1819 at the age of 83.

He developed the concept of horsepower and the SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him.

Watt's improvements to the steam engine "converted it from a prime mover of marginal efficiency into the mechanical workhorse of the Industrial Revolution". The availability of efficient, reliable motive power made whole new classes of industry economically viable, and altered the economies of continents. In doing so it brought about immense social change, attracting millions of rural families to the towns and cities.

Watt was much honoured in his own time. In 1784 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was elected as a member of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy, of Rotterdam in 1787. In 1789 he was elected to the elite group, the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. In 1806 he was conferred the honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow. The French Academy elected him a Corresponding Member and he was made a Foreign Associate in 1814.

The watt is named after James Watt for his contributions to the development of the steam engine, and was adopted by the Second Congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1889 and by the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1960 as the unit of power incorporated in the International System of Units (or "SI").

In 2011 James Watt was one of seven inaugural inductees to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt