The Artist's Guide to Perspective Book SOLD OUT DISCONTINUED
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JSAGPB
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In order to draw or paint anything realistically, an artist needs a good understanding of perspective, yet it is a subject that most people seem to find very confusing and challenging. Nobody knows this better than Janet Shearer. Having waded her way through countless books on the subject, Janet was inspired to write this light-hearted, artist-friendly book to save fellow artists from difficult technical information and complicated diagrams. The amazing thing about perpective is that we live with it every day and yet few of us question what we are seeing. Before pencil is put to paper, Janet presents a series of simple exercises which purely involve looking, enabling you to discover the basic principles of perspective for yourself. The book then builds on fundamentals, clearly progressing through subjects such as picture planes, vanishing points, aerial perspective and foreshortening, culminating in how to produce a plan for a large piece of work. Sequences of colour photographs and clearly sketched, simple diagrams accompany the exercises and information, so there is always a visual to back up the points being made. This book is for anyone who wants to draw or paint with the benefit of sound knowledge, method and consistency, in order to produce realistic, well thought out work.
Book: New Holland . Hardback . 96 pages . Colour throughout