No Experience Required: Sketching and Drawing - Softcover
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No Experience Required: Sketching & Drawing opens up the artistic experience to everyone, no matter what age or level. Readers will discover drawing's building blocks and then explore basic techniques through Blovits' illustrated exercises. * Exercises begin with pencil and charcoal, the simplest mediums, and then introduce the properties of color with cont? crayon and pastel * Each illustration reinforces the techniques, while 25 exercises and demonstrations take artists from first stroke to finished drawing * Materials lists spell out exactly what they'll need * A glossary of basic art terms quickly brings beginners up to speed And, as part of the No Experience Required series, the book's humorous quotes and cartoons make the instruction light and unintimidating.
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About the Author
Larry Blovits' work has appeared in American Artist, Artist International and Pastel Journal, and is in the collections of the Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan State Senate, Muskegon Museum of Art and Grand Rapids Art Museum. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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In his contribution to the No Experience Required series, award-winning landscape and portrait artist Blovits schools fledgling artists in exploring drawing's basic building blocks via increasingly complex exercises, from monotone to color. Twenty-eight exercises and demonstrations using simple subjects help sketchers develop the finished products, learning as they work the concepts and techniques of values, hatching and crosshatching, hue, intensity, contouring, blending and rubbing, lifting and erasing, lighting to create the illusion of volume, and more. Novices will find especially helpful the detailed explanations of papers, pencils, crayons, charcoal types, pastels, erasers, and fixatives. Blovits even includes exercises on working from photos and using pastel on sandpaper. Complete with metric conversion chart, detailed shopping lists, numerous black-and-white and full-color illustrations, and glossary, Sketching and Drawing has great appeal. Whitney Scott
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- PublisherNorth Light Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1581805055
- ISBN 13 9781581805055
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages111
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