Drawing Outdoors
eBook - ePub

Drawing Outdoors

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Drawing Outdoors

About this book

Noted artist, author and educator shows how to draw every major outdoor subject — land, greenery, skies, building, people, cities, and more — in all the major drawing media: pencils, pen and ink, brush and ink, felt pens, charcoal, Rembrandt to Wyeth. Over 100 illustrations.

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Information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780486143989
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Techniques

Index

Acrylic paints, 113, 118
Bartoli, Jose, illus. by, 49
Bellows, George, illus. by, 52
Bone, Muirhead, illus. by, 50
Branches, foreshortening of, 31-32; structure of, 27-28; see also Tree
Bruegel, Pieter, 133
Brushes, 29, 35, 89-92, 98, 105, 109-119, passim; dry-, 89-90; split-, 90-92; techniques, 92
Buildings, 39-46, 50-52, 86
Casein, 113, 118
Castiglione, G. B., illus. by, 137
Chalk, 41
Charcoal, 35, 66, 88, 99-103, 104, 126;
compressed, 101-102; hard and soft, 100;
papers, 100; pencils, 102-103; with ink line, 188 City, see Urban scenes
Clouds, 34; using correct medium for, 35-36 Composition, 22, 126-128 Constable, John, 133, 135, 136; illus. by, 135 Corot, Jean, 136 Crayon, 15-16, 35-36, 66, 126
Cross-hatching, 88, 92 Cubes, reducing to, 42, 50-52
Degas, Henri, 133
Detail, selecting and avoiding, 29, 32, 42, 52-53, 55-56
Distance, 24-25, 30-31
Drawing, branches, 31-32; buildings, 39-46, 50-52, 86; clouds, 34; foliage, 28-29; greenery, 26-32; inconspicuously, 58-59; land, 20-25; people, 52-53, 57-64; shadows, 25, 45-46; skies, 34-38; trees, 31, 86, 135
Dry points, see Pencil, carbon; Conte
Dürer, Albrecht, 133
Eisenstat, Ben, illus. by, 54, 91
Equipment, 15; for wash, 113-114; see also Crayon; Eraser; Felt tip pen; Pencil; Sketchbook
Eraser, kneaded, 35, 78, 100-101
Exhibiting, 140-141
Felt tip pen, 16-18, 93-98; inks in the, 94;
selecting the, 93; techniques, 95-98 Fixatif, 80, 100, 108, 118 Flowers, see Greenery
Focal point, 21,22, 53
Foliage, 28-29; see also Tree; Greenery
Foreground, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. I. The Outdoor Sketching World
  6. II. Simple Preparation
  7. III. The Land
  8. IV. Greenery
  9. V. Skies
  10. VI. Buildings
  11. VII. The Urban Scene
  12. VIII. People
  13. IX. The Gamut of Sketching
  14. X. Pencil and Similar Points
  15. XI. Pen and Ink
  16. XII. Brush and Ink
  17. XIII. The Felt Tip Pen
  18. XIV. Charcoal
  19. XV. Pastel
  20. XVI. Wash
  21. XVII. Mixed Media
  22. XVIII. The Visual Memory
  23. XIX. Building the Picture
  24. XX. The Use of Artistic Ancestors
  25. XXI. Practice and Growth
  26. Index