| Description |
144 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: A Visual World 8 -- Introduction: Art from the Mind and Heart 10 -- Lesson 1 Almighty edge 13 -- Mind Exercise: "Out of Mind" Drawings 14 -- Mind Exercise: Kitchen Still Life 15 -- Relationships 16 |
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Heart Exercise: Blind Contour-Line Drawing 16 -- Mind Exercise: Connect the Dots 18 -- Making Marks 19 -- Heart Exercise: Musical Lines 20 -- Line Drawing or Form? Your Personal Signature 21 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: Painting with a Partner 22 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Portrait Partnering 22 -- Lesson 1 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Line in Exceptional Ways 23 -- Lesson 2 Within the edges 25 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: Five-Tone Value Scale 25 -- Traveling Inward, Observing Value 26 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Drawing with Crosshatches 26 -- Learning to See Form 27 -- Mind Exercise: Wire-Frame Studies 28 |
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Heart Exercise: Value Strokes 30 -- Heart Exercise: Cross-Contour Brushstrokes 30 -- Heart Exercise: Crosshatch Partner Painting 31 -- Lesson 2 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Line and Crosshatching in Exceptional Ways 32 |
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Lesson 3 Shaping the interiors 35 -- Go with the Flow 36 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Still Life of Shapes 36 -- Heart Exercise: Shaping the Edge 37 -- Heart-Mind Exercise: Water Shapes 38 |
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Heart Exercise: Water Shapes with Regained Edge by Drawing 39 -- Working with Charcoal 40 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Smudging 40 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Line Versus Form 41 -- Heart Exercise: Sculpting 41 -- Setting Your Stage 42 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: Winter Landscape 42 -- Lesson 3 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Shape in Exceptional Ways 44 -- Lesson 4 The intellect of color 47 -- Heart Exercise: Favorite Colors 48 |
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Heart Exercise: Uncertain Colors 48 -- The Unique Properties of Watercolor 49 -- Mind Exercise: Rainbow Fence 49 -- Primary Triads 50 -- Heart Exercise: Color Circle 50 -- Mind Exercise: Color Triangles 50 -- Layering Color 51 |
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Heart Exercise: Wet-on-Dry Glazing 52 -- Lesson 4 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Color in Exceptional Ways 54 -- Lesson 5 Exploring gesture 57 -- Heart Exercise: Florals 58 -- Which Tool to Use? 59 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: Crumpled Paper Bag 59 -- Your Brushstroke Is Your Signature 60 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Group Brushstrokes Puzzle 61 -- Heart Exercise: Wet-on-Wet, Wet-on-Dry, Landscape 62 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: Line, Form, Pen, Paint 63 -- Lesson 5 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Gestural Lines/Brushstrokes in Exceptional Ways 64 -- Lesson 6 In the studio 69 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Thumbnail Sketches 71 |
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Working from Photographs 72 -- Heart Exercise: Landscape Painting from Photos 73 -- Tracing Techniques 74 -- Mind Exercise: Working from a Tracing 74 -- Using the Computer 76 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Watercoloring Computer Scans 76 |
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Surrealist Touches 77 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Imaginary Worlds 77 -- Lesson 6 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use the Studio in Exceptional Ways 78 -- Lesson 7 On location 81 -- Plein Air Pioneers 82 |
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Mind Exercise: Choosing Nearby Locations 82 -- Heart-Mind Exercise: Fast Paintings 83 -- Composing a Painting On Site 84 -- Heart Exercise: Painting Sunrise or Sunset 85 -- What Are You Recording? 86 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: "On Location" via TV 86 -- Tool Review 87 -- Location Sketchbook 88 -- Heart Exercise: Visual Journal 88 -- Lesson 7 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Gestural Line on Location in Exceptional Ways 90 |
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Lesson 8 Tints, tones, shades 93 -- Value Progression 94 -- Mind Exercise: Mixing Neutrals 95 -- Mind Exercise: Creating Tints, Tones, Shades 95 -- Heart Exercise: Value Symphony 98 |
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Lesson 8 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Tints, Tones, and Shades in Exceptional Ways 100 -- Lesson 9 Creating mood 103 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Frontlight, Backlight 104 -- Backgrounds 105 |
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Heart Exercise: Negative Space 105 -- Heart Exercise: Gessoed Board 106 -- Contrast Magic 107 -- Mind Exercise: Simultaneous Contrast 107 -- Night Scenes 108 -- Self-Portrait: Your Personal Statement 109 |
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Mind-Heart Exercise: Portraits of Others 109 -- Lesson 9 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Light in Exceptional Ways 110 -- Lesson 10 Emotional color 113 -- Color Temperature and Saturation 114 |
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Mind Exercise: Color as Value Scale 115 -- Direct Painting 116 -- Heart Exercise: Painting with Unmixed Colors 116 -- Mind Exercise: Saturated, Desaturated Palettes 118 |
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Lesson 10 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Emotional Color in Exceptional Ways 119 -- Lesson 11 Abstracting a subject 123 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Deconstructing a Subject 124 -- Advance and Recede 126 |
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Heart Exercise: Fast, Expressive Landscape 126 -- Freedom with Paint 128 -- Mind-Heart Exercise: Abstracting a Still Life 128 -- Lesson 11 Studies: Great Artists to Explore Who Use Abstraction in Exceptional Ways 130 |
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Lesson 12 Finding your own voice 133 -- Heart Exercise: Exploring Techniques of Expression 134 -- Neutralize Judgment 136 -- Heart Exercise: Group Painting 137 -- What Do You Know About Your Work? 138 |
| Summary |
12 essential lessons to becoming a better artist |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Drawing -- Technique.
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Painting -- Technique.
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Drawing -- Psychological aspects.
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Painting -- Psychological aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction
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| LC no. |
2002106776 |
| ISBN |
0823013979 |
