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Step-by-Step Art School: Still Life
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Product Description
A still life provides the perfect model--motionless and with a never-ending range of shapes, textures, and colors. For this reason, it is an important part of every artist's repertoire, and an excellent style for the newcomer just developing skills. Explore the subject in all its richness with this perfect guide. Using carefully graded exercises, it shows novices how to choose a subject, compose the image, and then capture it using such varied media as watercolor, oils, pastels, acrylics, ink, and charcoal. Historical background and images of a wide-ranging collection of famous works provide inspiration and teach the eye how to look.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1522619 in Books
- Published on: 2006-07-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
It's rare to find a series of basic instructional books that are well executed, comprehensive, and attractively priced. Each of the volumes in Hamlyn's "Step-by-Step Art School" series explores the evolution of a genre, its tools, and its methods. The series avoids the usual pitfall of so many beginners' books pretty pictures accompanied by brief, mediocre text. Instead, its carefully graded exercises are thoughtfully illustrated and packed with cogent advice for the novice. Buchan and Baker's book on still life, for example, contains a wonderful historical survey with examples ranging from Caravaggio, Manet, and van Gogh to Picasso and Warhol. Demonstrations utilize ink, pencil, watercolor, acrylics, and oils in various styles. One can experiment with realistic, abstract, and surreal treatments of a basket of fruit, an old telephone, or a collection of bottles. The quality of this series is consistent, and Hamlyn is, wisely, also reprinting earlier fine entries like Patricia Monahan's Step-by-Step Art School: Watercolour. Purchase as many of these as your budget allows.
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Text and illustrations show aspiring artists how to use a range of media, including pencil, charcoal, acrylics, pastels, and watercolors, to create exciting effects and feature information on equipment and basic techniques.
