{"title":"Art Instruction","description":"It's never too early or too late to start learning the finer points of your favorite form of art. Dover's Art Instruction books can help beginners and experienced artists alike express themselves in new and interesting media. Perfect sketching techniques, perspective, brushwork, and many other topics artists need to succeed.","products":[{"product_id":"9780486498485","title":"How to Draw Nearly Everything","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eBeginners seeking a comprehensive book on drawing, rejoice! Suitable for all ages, this guide by a noted expert covers all of the basics as well as the most common subjects. Learn how to draw figures, faces, landscapes, trees, flowers, and animals of all kinds, including horses, dogs, and cats. In addition to tips on composition, shading, and perspective, this well-illustrated guide offers suggestions for pencil, pen, and brush techniques.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume combines the best and most practical material from ten of artist Victor Perard's drawing books. In addition to flower arrangements and studies, Perard's sketches include images of trees in winter and summer. 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Even though Hawthorne is addressing himself to specific problems in specific paintings, his comments are so revealing that they will be found applicable a hundred times to your own work.\u003cbr\u003eThe book is divided into sections on the outdoor model, still life, landscape, the indoor model, and watercolor. Each section begins with a concise essay and continues with comments on basic elements: general character, color, form, seeing, posture, etc. It is in the matter of color that students will especially feel themselves in the presence of a master guide and critic. Hawthorne’s ability to see color and, more important, to make the student see color, is a lesson that will aid student painters and anyone else interested in any phase of art.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough it does not pretend to be a comprehensive or closely ordered course, this book does have much to offer. 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But in spite of the time-proven excellence of this technique — which boasts many clear advantages over oil paint — it does not receive the degree of attention from modern painters that it deserves.\u003cbr\u003ePart of the explanation for this neglect, surely, is the absence of sufficient information about the materials and procedures involved in tempera painting. The present volume, in fact, is virtually the only complete, authoritative, step-by-step treatment of the subject in the English language, D.V. 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In this volume, an internationally known authority on medieval paint technology describes these often jealously guarded recipes, lists of materials, and processes. \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eBased upon years of study of medieval manuscripts and enlarged by laboratory analysis of medieval paintings, this book discusses carriers and grounds, binding media, pigments, coloring materials, and metals used in painting. \u003cbr\u003eIt describes the surfaces that the medieval artist painted upon, detailing their preparation. It analyzes binding media, discussing relative merits of glair versus gums, oil glazes, and other matters. It tells how the masters obtained their colors, how they processed them, and how they applied them. It tells how metals were prepared for use in painting, how gold powders and leaf were laid on, and dozens of other techniques. \u003cbr\u003eSimply written, easy to read, this book will be invaluable to art historians, students of medieval painting and civilization, and historians of culture. Although it contains few fully developed recipes, it will interest any practicing artist with its discussion of methods of brightening colors and assuring permanence. \u003cbr\u003e\"A rich feast,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London). \"Enables the connoisseur, artist, and collector to obtain the distilled essence of Thompson's researches in an easily read and simple form,\" \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e (London). \"A mine of technical information for the artist,\" \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review of Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Daniel V. 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Noting and practicing the way Mr. Calder captures the emotions and attitudes of animals in a few quick lines, the student can quickly obtain a lasting groundwork in animal sketching that will before long become second nature. \u003cbr\u003eThese full-body sketches and enlarged details, in rapid, expressive brush-and-ink, of animals from the farm, the zoo, wildlife, and the home, in characteristic poses and movements, reveal both the action and portrait aspects of the art. There are 12 sketches of horses in action (drawing wagon or plough, racing, etc.); 10 drawings of cats, luxuriously asleep or alertly watchful, stretching or crouching; 14 drawings of dogs (many different breeds) in a variety of poses ― lying down, sleeping, sitting, running, sniffing the air, feeding puppies; 11 drawings of lions and other big cats, pacing, lying down, or crouching; 7 sketches of monkeys, jumping and gesticulating; 23 drawings of deer, stooping, sitting, running, etc.; 27 drawings of birds of many different species ― owls sitting, ducks waddling, etc.; and 18 sketches of cows grazing, sitting, swishing tails, and feeding calves. Also included are drawings of seals, elephants, squirrels, kangaroos, and a bear. \u003cbr\u003eBecause of the simplicity of Mr. Calder's approach to sketching, this book can easily be used by even the youngest of students. There are no difficult techniques to master here, no roundabout methods of construction, but just an insistence on drawing things as the student sees them, with undogmatic (and delightful) assistance from an undisputed master of the simple expressive line. It is unlikely that there is any more pleasant way to study such a fundamental branch of pictorial art. \u003cbr\u003eUnabridged and unaltered republication of third (1929) edition. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the third 1929 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alexander Calder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159276142913,"sku":"9780486201290","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/files\/9780486201290.jpg?v=1775754390"},{"product_id":"9780486217765","title":"The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry","description":"Is design intuitive or is it consciously and methodically worked out? Are there basic rules governing design that, when learned, will facilitate the creative process? These questions have been asked by artists, art historians, and art critics throughout the ages.\u003cbr\u003eConvinced that design was not purely instinctive, Jay Hambidge (1867–1924) spent much of his life searching for the technical bases of design. He found his answer in dynamic symmetry, one of the most provocative and stimulating theories in art history. Hambidge's study of Greek art convinced him that the secret of the beauty of Greek design was in the conscious use of dynamic symmetry — the law of natural design based upon the symmetry of growth in man and in plants. But Hambidge, who was not only a theoretician but also a practicing artist, did much more than analyze classical art and its principles of design: he worked out a series of root rectangles that the artist, using the simple mathematics supplied in this book, can easily follow and apply in his own work.\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published as a series of lessons in Hambidge's magazine, \u003ci\u003eThe Diagonal,\u003c\/i\u003e this engrossing book explains all the basic principles of dynamic symmetry. Part I sets forth the fundamental rectangles with their simple divisions based on the proportioning law found in nature; Part II explains compound rectangles, many of which were taken from or suggested by analysis of objects of Greek art. \u003cbr\u003eWhether read for its historical importance in art theory, for its illuminating insights into Greek art, or for its practical value to today's artists and commercial designers, \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Dynamic Symmetry\u003c\/i\u003e has much to offer anyone who is interested in the principle of design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the third 1948 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jay Hambidge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159292756289,"sku":"9780486217765","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486217765.jpg?v=1710181005"},{"product_id":"9780486214757","title":"The Artistic Anatomy of Trees","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"Monumental book . . . Mr. Vicat Cole is a born teacher.\" — \u003ci\u003eContemporary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Vicat Cole's ability as a landscape painter is well known, and he unites to his executive talents the qualifications of an accomplished teacher.\" — \u003ci\u003eConnoisseur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The name of the author is itself a guarantee that the subject is adequately treated. It is handled in a systematic and lucid way, which the novice . . . can follow with ease.\" — \u003ci\u003eStudio\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFor years greatly admired and widely used, this excellent text by one of Britain's foremost art instructors has achieved the status of a classic in its field. The author, also a noted landscape painter, offers complete and accurate instruction in painting and drawing trees to all serious artists — beginner or advanced, amateur or professional. Its extremely comprehensive and detailed coverage has earned this volume a permanent place in the libraries of landscape painters, students, and teachers. \u003cbr\u003eEvery aspect of trees and how to depict them — in any style — is covered with unusual clarity and precision; problems of balancing tree groups, relations of light and shade, delicacy and weight, distance, sky apertures and their patterns, curves and straight lines in tree branches, tree color, the influence of special environmental factors (age, frost and snow, wind, moonlight), the effects of bud arrangements on the anatomy of trees, etc. Of special value is the very thorough and lucid analysis of tree anatomy: the proportion of boughs, branches, and twigs; the positioning of leaves on twigs; the form, texture, and color of leaves; leaf patterns; flower arrangement; stipules, bracts, buds, scales, spines, seedlings, the bark, and all the other essential details of structure. Specific information is given for each tree discussed: oaks, sycamores, willows, pines, maples, etc.; abstract and inaccurate generalizations are avoided. Nearly 500 illustrations by the author accompany the text, demonstrating all the anatomical features discussed. In addition, there are 48 full-page plates: magnificent landscape paintings and drawings by Giorgione, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van der Neer, Watteau, Hobbema, Turner, Gainsborough, Dupré, and many others, showing their compositional use of trees, their details in rendering, and similar material. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the second edition.\u003c\/div\u003e watteau;hobbema;apertures;arborist;sycamores;corazon;draughtsmanship;gainsborough;conifers;maples;rubens;boughs;landscaper;seedlings;twigs;windswept;leafing;vegetation;botanist;buds;aesthetics;painters;limb;trunk;leaf;composition;anatomy;branches;rendering;lucid;plates;landscapes;beginner;sketches;colour;books on landscapes","brand":"Rex Vicat Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159303143745,"sku":"9780486214757","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486214757.jpg?v=1710182709"},{"product_id":"9780486229270","title":"Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eWritten by a famous American painter and teacher, whose landscapes are found in many of the world's most noted museums, this book is known as one of the art student's most helpful guides. It provides a wealth of advice on the choice of subject; it tells what to look for and aim for, and explains the mysteries of color, atmospheric conditions, and other phenomena to be found in nature.\u003cbr\u003e Through his profound understanding of the physical nature of landscapes and his highly developed artistic sense, John Carlson is able to explain both the whys and the hows of the various aspects of landscape painting. Among the subjects covered are angles and consequent values (an insightful concept necessary for strong overall unity of design), aerial and linear perspective, the painting of trees, the emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, choice of subject, and memory work. In the beginning chapters, the author tells how to make the best of canvas, palette, colors, brushes, and other materials and gives valuable advice about texture, glazing, varnishing, bleaching, retouching, and framing. Thirty-four reproductions of Mr. Carlson's own work and 58 of his explanatory diagrams are shown on pages adjoining the text.\u003cbr\u003e As Howard Simon says in the introduction: \"Crammed into its pages are the thoughts and experiences of a lifetime of painting and teaching. Undoubtedly it is a good book for the beginner, but the old hand at art will appreciate its honesty and broadness of viewpoint. It confines itself to the mechanics of landscape painting but, philosophically, it roams far and wide. . . . 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Altogether over 225 different patterns are presented for your use, with hundreds of modification suggestions, 110 historical and modern artifacts showing designs in use, a great number of letters including six complete alphabets and 25 decorative initials, and a number of animal and human figures used in the original Celtic works.\u003cbr\u003e Artists, students, craftspeople, even children can work with these patterns and instructions for creating dynamic designs for use in leather work, in embroidery and other needle work, in metalwork, jewelry making, card design, borders, panels, illuminations, and in countless other ways. Mathematicians will find a great deal of pleasure in the geometric principles on which the patterns are based. 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