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| |  Drawing Trees
by Victor Perard
Concise guide features easy steps for realistic depictions of trees. Discover shading, composition, shadow, and outlining techniques that add vitality and expression. Over 100 illustrations spotlight Oak, Willow, Pine, Palmetto, more.
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| Products in Art Instruction | | |  | Acrylic Watercolor Painting
by Wendon Blake
Excellent step-by-step coverage of painting surfaces, colors, and mediums as well as basic techniques: washes, wet-in-wet, drybrush, more. 75 paintings demonstrate extraordinary variety of techniques. 126 illustrations, including 21 in full color.
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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, trees seen against the sky, lines of the branches, and much, much more. 515 illustrations.
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|  | The Book of a Hundred Hands
by George B. Bridgman
The legendary Art Students League of New York teacher offers 100 fine drawings and in-depth instruction in this guide to drawing virtually every aspect and posture of the human hand.
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|  | Bridgman’s Life Drawing
by George B. Bridgman
More than 500 drawings and text teach you to abstract the body into its major masses. Also specific areas of anatomy.
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|  | Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting
by John F. Carlson
The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, perspective, painting of trees, more. 34 black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Carlson. 58 explanatory diagrams.
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| |  | Composition in Landscape and Still Life
by Ernest W. Watson
Highlighting the works of nearly 100 master painters, Watson points out that while an artist's skill is important, a painting's true power lies in its arrangement, design, and theme. 135 paintings.
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|  | Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color
by Arthur Wesley Dow
Focusing on harmonic relations between lines, color, and dark and light patterns, this manual influenced generations of artists. Practical and well-illustrated, it conveys its insights in a convenient workbook format.
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|  | Drawing Animals
by Victor Perard
A renowned artist/teacher demonstrates the muted strokes, bold lines, and simple arcs that bring animals to life. Numerous sketches highlight techniques for more than 50 creatures: bears, camels, lions, more.
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| | Drawing Trees
by Victor Perard
Concise guide features easy steps for realistic depictions of trees. Discover shading, composition, shadow, and outlining techniques that add vitality and expression. Over 100 illustrations spotlight Oak, Willow, Pine, Palmetto, more.
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|  | Drawing and Illustration: A Complete Guide
by John Moranz
Utilizing as few words as possible but presenting a tremendous variety and volume of illustrations, this all-in-one guide details the fundamentals of drawing in its various phases and fields.
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|  | Figure Drawing: A Complete Guide
by Richard G. Hatton
This practical guide approaches figure drawing from the draftsman's perspective. Full of tips and tricks that students appreciate, it features 377 illustrations that cover all aspects of the human form.
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|  | Freehand Perspective and Sketching
by Dora Miriam Norton
The essential guide to rendering perspective, this classic manual uses a series of illustrated exercises and explanations to help artists and students master one of art's greatest challenges. More than 260 figures.
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|  | Harding's Lessons on Drawing: A Classic Approach
by J. D. Harding
One of 19th-century England's most respected artists and teachers presents 127 lessons that train both hand and mind in fundamentals of lines and circles, light and shade, perspective, and much more.
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|  | How to Draw Trees
by Frank M. Rines
Illustrating the dominant features of many common species — elm, maple, willow, apple, more — this manual includes two portraits of each variety, in pencil and other media. 34 drawings.
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|  | Illustrating Nature: How to Paint and Draw Plants and Animals
by Dorothea Barlowe, Sy Barlowe
A pair of professional artists offers valuable suggestions for realistic portrayals of flowers, animals, and other natural subjects. Detailed, step-by-step demonstrations use watercolors, oils, pencil, and other media. Over 400 illustrations.
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|  | Marine Painter's Guide
by Jack Coggins
Invaluable instruction from an expert on portraying everything from docks and fishing villages to ships and a rocky coastline. Useful tips on perspective and reflections are accompanied by diagrams and drawings. 127 black-and-white illustrations; 11 in full color.
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|  | Painting Surf and Sea
by Harry R. Ballinger
Profusely illustrated and easy to follow, this book combines basics of composition and color mixing with simple methods for painting ocean waves and shores. 12 color and 85 black-and-white illustrations.
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|  | Pen and Pencil Drawing Techniques
by Harry Borgman
Manual by acclaimed artist contains the best information available on pencil and ink techniques, including 28 step-by-step demonstrations — many of them in full color.
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|  | Pencil, Ink and Charcoal Drawing
by Charles X. Carlson
This original single-volume compilation of four of the author's best books features thousands of step-by-step images and covers figure drawings, portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
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