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It's never too early too late or early to start learning the finer points of your favorite form of art. Dover's Art Instruction books can help beginners and experienced artists alike to express themselves in new and interesting media.
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Recommendations... Animal Sketching
by Alexander Calder
Undisputed master of the simple expressive line. 141 full-body sketches and enlarged details of animals in characteristic poses and movements. Calder covers cats, dogs, the elephant, birds, monkeys, and more.
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| |  Life Drawing: A Complete Course
by E. L. Koller
With this invaluable reference, artists at every level can learn new methods for rendering the human figure. Illustrations and techniques cover everything from the head and facial expressions to hands in assorted positions to various action poses.
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 Complete Guide to Watercolor Painting
by Edgar A. Whitney
Brilliant guide by renowned artist tells all, from basics to creating masterful landscapes, portraits, and figures. Full-color sections follow evolution of 7 of the author's own watercolors. 37 color and over 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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 Drawing Lessons
by Willy Pogány
A sequential, constructive guide to drawing the human figure from a master illustrator. Begins with the humble dot and progresses to perspective, shading, portraiture, balance, motion, and more. 375 illustrations.
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| |  Abstract Design and How to Create It
by Amor Fenn
Profusely illustrated guide covers geometric basis of design, implements and their use, borders, textile patterns, nature study, and treatment. Over 380 illustrations include historical examples from many cultures and periods.
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Products in Art Instruction | | |  | ART START Animals: How to Draw with Simple Shapes
by Barbara Soloff Levy, Drawing
Designed for ages 4 to 6, this book shows how to create 30 cartoon-style animals in four easy steps. Each step is color highlighted, making it easy to follow along.
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| | | Abstract Design and How to Create It
by Amor Fenn
Profusely illustrated guide covers geometric basis of design, implements and their use, borders, textile patterns, nature study, and treatment. Over 380 illustrations include historical examples from many cultures and periods.
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|  | Abstraction in Art and Nature
by Nathan Cabot Hale
Stimulating, thought-provoking guide to finding rich sources of creative abstraction in lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather patterns, earth colors, many other natural elements. Over 370 photographs and other illustrations.
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|  | Anatomical Diagrams for Art Students
by James M. Dunlop
This indispensable reference focuses on the skeleton's impact on external form and attachments of the muscular system. Over 70 accurate illustrations cover neck, head, trunk, limbs, hand, foot, and face.
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|  | Anatomy and Drawing
by Victor Perard
Excellent line drawings and annotations of anatomical structure provide the beginning artist with just about everything one needs to know about drawing all parts of the human anatomy. 179 black-and-white illustrations.
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|  | Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing
by Charles Oliver
Clearly and concisely written book covers two subjects seldom treated thoroughly in the same volume. Demonstrations of figure drawing include the use of such simple forms as the cube, cylinder, and sphere. 96 black-and-white figures.
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|  | Animal Drawing and Anatomy
by Edwin Noble
Written and illustrated by a distinguished artist and art instructor, this volume features valuable insights into reproducing accurate images of horses, cows, dogs, sheep, birds, and wild animals. 233 drawings.
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by Alexander Calder
Undisputed master of the simple expressive line. 141 full-body sketches and enlarged details of animals in characteristic poses and movements. Calder covers cats, dogs, the elephant, birds, monkeys, and more.
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|  | Animal Sketching for Beginners
by Len A. Doust
Empowering and enlightening, this handy little book provides the confidence, insight, and guidance to help any sketcher create realistic animal drawings. 31 illustrations.
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|  | The Art and Technique of Pen Drawing
by G. Montague Ellwood
Excellent reference describes line technique; drawing the figure, face, and hands; humorous illustration; pen drawing for advertisers; landscape and architectural illustration. Drawings by Dürer, Holbein, Doré, Rackham, Beardsley, Klinger, more. 161 figures.
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|  | The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature
by Ken Hultgren
Former Disney animator offers expert advice, with over 700 illustrations, on drawing dogs, cats, deer, foxes, rabbits, more. Line, brush technique, mood, action, more.
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|  | The Art of Cartooning
by Roy Paul Nelson
Tips for using proper tools and techniques; suggestions for drawing the human figure, animals, and backgrounds; how to create comic strips and editorial cartoons. 75 illustrations.
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|  | The Art of Etching
by E.S. Lumsden
An expert traces every step in the creation of etchings, from essential materials to completed proof, and presents a rich historical survey of the art. 200 figures and annotated plates.
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|  | The Art of Painting and Drawing Animals
by Fredric Sweney
Practical guide makes it easier for beginners as well as advanced artists to paint everything from dogs, cats, and deer to birds, sheep, and goats. 236 black-and-white illustrations, 26 in color.
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|  | The Art of Three-Dimensional Design
by Louis Wolchonok
Profusely illustrated guide shows how basic shapes and surfaces — plane, prismatic, cylindric, conical, spherical, more — can be adapted and combined to create hundreds of new designs. Over 100 illustrations.
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|  | The Artistic Anatomy of Trees
by Rex V. Cole
Covers every aspect of trees and how to depict them: balancing tree groups, relationship of light and shade, delicacy and weight, distance, tree color, and more. 515 illustrations.
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by Louis Priscilla
Beginning with perspective, this commonsense manual progresses to the figure in movement, light and shade, anatomy, drapery, composition, trees and landscape, and outdoor sketching. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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by Victor Perard
A distinguished artist and art educator shows clearly how the use of vanishing points and perspective lines can add dramatic depth and dimension to any drawing. 62 illustrations.
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|  | The Best of Bridgman : Boxed Set
by George Bridgman
The legendary George Bridgman taught in classrooms and studios for 50 years. This collection features 3 of his finest guides:
• Bridgman’s Life Drawing
• The Book of a Hundred Hands
• Heads, Features and Faces
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