| This easy-to-follow guide by noted artist and teacher Wendon Blake offers a wealth of valuable tips and suggestions for recording the beauty of nature on drawing paper. Stressing the value of on-the-spot drawings, Mr. Blake's clearly written manual provides time-tested advice on training your powers of observation: judging proportions of typical landscape forms such as boulders, trees and clouds, learning how to judge light and dark areas of a subject to convert to black and white tones, and much more. You'll also find a host of valuable pointers on how best to use pencil, chalk, charcoal and tools, establish linear and aerial perspectives, and how to transform cubical, cylindrical, rounded and irregular shapes into such natural forms as mountains, forests, sand dunes, trees, meadows, shorelines, and other geographical features. Paperback, 80 pages.ISBN 486402010 Dover |
