Author: Liz SteelPublisher: 5-Minute
ISBN: 9781770857575
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The next craze, after coloring books, is sketching.
5-Minute Sketching -- Landscapes
Author: Virginia HeinPublisher: 5-Minute
ISBN: 9781770859180
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A comprehensive guide to quick sketching of landscapes. 5 Minute Sketching-Landscapes is about drawing what you see, mostly in settings away from the "modern world." It's especially appropriate for travelers. There are 60 exercises for new and aspiring artists which can be done in any number of locations and as often as desired. All will help to hone skills, increase speed, and help to promote a daily drawing routine. Sketchers will learn how look at a scene and deconstruct its elements quickly - for example, see natural features as colored geometric shapes; locate the source of light; divide the scene into planes (e.g., close, mid, far) for accurate perspective and color values; and note landmarks that support their observations. Readers will build an instinctive focus that pays off in speed and results. Experienced artists will refresh their skills, eliminate bad habits, and discover new ways of seeing. Landscapes, of course, feature color, and this is covered in some detail and with expert guidance thro.
Author: Pete Scully
Author: James Gulliver Hancock5-Minute Sketching -- Animals and Pets
Author: Gary GerathsPublisher: 5-Minute
ISBN: 9781770859173
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A guide to making quick sketches of the pets and animals. The book comprises 60 exercises for all artists that wish to learn how to sketch, or get tips on how to finesse their existing skills and get rid of bad habits. A bite-sized approach for honing observational skills and loosen up creativity, quick observation and deconstruction. Contains advice on choice of media and their uses, including washes, pencils, charcoal and pastels."--
John Salminen - Master of the Urban Landscape
Author: John SalminenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440348286
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Take a Journey with the Master of the Urban Landscape! John Salminen is one of the most accomplished watercolor artists working today, earning awards and recognition all over the world. Whether depicting the trees of Central Park, the architecture of San Francisco or the busy streets of Beijing, John Salminen's watercolor paintings are snapshots of urban life that are both rich in detail and universal in appeal. In Master of the Urban Landscape, Salminen shares over 150 pieces of his artwork, spanning his entire career. His early abstracts and recent plein air work in the book's Introduction set the groundwork for four chapters of remarkable watercolor paintings that highlight different aspects of his work: architectural form, organic form, human form and light and shadow. Throughout, Salminen shares the inspiration for his paintings, challenges he encountered and techniques he used to capture unique scenes from cities around the world. Embark on an amazing watercolor journey with John Salminen—Master of the Urban Landscape. "John Salminen is a master of the medium of watercolor. His sense of light and design sets him apart from his contemporaries, and he has emerged as one of the finest living artists of our times with a style very much his own." --Dean Mitchell
The Sketchbook Project World Tour
Author: Steven PetermanPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894458
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Destined to go down as one of the era's most astonishing global art projects, the Brooklyn Art Library's Sketchbook Project has, in less than a decade, amassed more than thirty thousand sketchbooks submitted by people of all ages and artistic abilities from more than 130 countries. Bursting with color, vivid imagery, and bouts of whimsy mixed with deeply intimate insights, the sketchbooks capture the texture of personal experience in a dizzying variety of illustrative styles and layouts that run the gamut from street portraits to stream-of-consciousness doodles, comics, and pop-ups. The Sketchbook Project World Tour presents the most compelling, surprising, and visually stunning examples from this one-of-a-kind artistic treasury.
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes
Author: Gabriel CampanarioPublisher:
ISBN: 1592539610
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapesprovides keys to help make the experience of drawing architecture and cityscapes fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.
Sketching Techniques for Artists
Author: Alex HillkurtzPublisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1631599240
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Learn dynamic sketching and watercolor techniques for creating cityscapes, landscapes, figures and faces, still lifes, and more, enhancing the story you want to tell with form, line, and color. Discover incredible methods and tips for creating dramatic street scenes and vivid landscapes, and capturing dynamic figures and graphic architectural details. Artist Alex Hillkurtz—a top Hollywood storyboard artist, international workshop instructor, and Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society—presents fundamental concepts of sketching with pencil and pen for a number of popular genres. Discover simple ways to jot down spontaneous ideas in pencil, capture rough details in ink, and add watercolor for extra depth and interest. Make sketching more enjoyable by adopting innovative techniques that will make a difference in your practice, and your artwork. No matter your experience or skill level, you’ll benefit from learning: Compositions that draw the eye How to avoid common sketching mistakes Ways to create light and shadow to define shapes and add interest Successful ways to use negative space The importance of perspective in creating depth Easy color washes that create drama Get started today, and fill your sketchbooks with unique drawings and paintings you will be proud of. The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.
Five Minute Sketching People
Author: Pete ScullyPublisher: Apple Press
ISBN: 9781845436605
Category : Figure drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive directory of sketching and drawing techniques for able and aspiring artists, 5-Minute Sketching: People will help you to dust off your sketchbook and loosen up your creativity in a short amount of time. This bite-sized approach will help readers to make drawing a part of their everyday lives, and to look and deconstruct figures and faces quickly. 5-Minute Sketching is the perfect way to focus your sketching energies - within five minutes it is perfectly possible to produce a great drawing. Short poses are a staple of traditional life drawing classes and the perfect way to warm up creatively. Every spread in the book features six expert tips and ideas, as well as examples of amazing 5-minute sketches to inspire your masterpieces! Urban Sketcher Pete Scully looks first at Who to Draw, with topics such as quick direct poses, drawing the verb, capturing motion, drawing people from a distance and capturing a conversation. Next comes How to Look, with easy expert tips on perspective, foreshortening and drawing difficult features such as arms, noses and hair. Next, Useful Techniques includes advice on having fun with mark-making, contour drawing, crosshatching, and scribbling, amongst others topics. Finally, explore the Tools and Materials section of the book, with easy-to-use advice on pencils, pens, color washes and digital techniques. Get set and sketch!
