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You Can Draw Horses
The horse is one of the most popular but difficult animals to draw. This concise and practical guide by a renowned illustrator covers the essentials far better than longer books on the subject. Topics include: Proportion; Anatomy; Movement; Sketching; and Materials. These and many other subjects are all covered with superb clarity, the techniques and tips enhanced by 128 illustrations. This vol…
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Doré's Illustrations for Don Quixote
"His Don Quixote from its first to its last page [is] a marvel of imagination, poetry, sentiment, and sarcasm. . . . People still speak of it only as 'Dor's Don Quixote'." Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dor Dor himself had something of Quixote's chivalry and spent an arduous life drafting impossible dreams; he knew fame as well as pain, disillusionment, and failure. At age 30 he was ready …
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- 9780486136943
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Watercolor
In this irreplaceable guide, award-winning artist and instructor John Pike shares with artists at all levels of experience the expertise gained through a lifetime of perfecting his craft. All the information watercolorists could possibly want is here choosing a brush; selecting and composing subject matter; producing a variety of washes, brush strokes, and textures; making corrections; and dis…
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- 9780486136905
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Chinese Brush PaintingA Complete Course in Traditional and Modern Techniques
Comprehensive "how-to" manual takes all levels of students through the creative process, providing detailed instructions for painting such simple subjects as bamboo and plum blossoms as well as more ambitious motifs: birds, fish, and landscapes. Some sections describe how to adapt Chinese brush painting to Western subjects. 150 illustrations, including 82 in full color.
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- 9780486136837
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Figure Drawing and PortraitureIn Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal
From an award-winning English artist and teacher whose work was exhibited at the esteemed Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy comes a beautifully designed guide to drawing the face and figure. The author of such artistic references as "The Technique of Pencil Drawing" and "The Art of the Pencil," Borough Johnson also illustrated many famous poems and novels, including Longfellow's "Evangelin…
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Harter's Picture Archive for Collage and Illustration
Men in strange flying machines Mysterious veiled women Exotic animals, birds, insects, plants Eerie faces Wonderful technological devices Unusual landscapes, cityscapes, moonscapes Children, couples, Victorian buildings, and interiors Over 300 authentic and strikingly visual nineteenth-century engravings selected from rare periodicals, books, and catalogs, dating mostly from 1870 to 1900…
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- 9780486136677
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- 1 online resource (192 pages)
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Drawing and Sketching in Pencil
This classic guide offers clear, concise instruction in the basics as well as the finer points of pencil drawing. Appropriate for beginning and intermediate students, it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations that encompass a wide range of subjects mainly architectural, but also people, animals, and landscapes and demonstrate a tremendous variety of techniques. An architect, painte…
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The Codex Nuttall
The only value-priced, full-color edition of the pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Features 88 color plates of kings, gods, heroes, temples, sacrifices, and more. New introduction.
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The Drawings of Heinrich Kley
This is a new unabridged edition of the two sketchbooks by Heinrich Kley, one of the greatest cartoonists and social satirists of modern times. Kley's drawings combine savage humor that cuts to the bone with unbelievably brilliant draughtsmanship. Several of these sketches have been reprinted time and again, and probably everyone has seen at least one. But until now the main body of Kley's work…
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- 9780486136615
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The Complete Guide to Artistic Anatomy
This systematic presentation illustrates the depiction of bones and muscles, both in detailed close-ups and in larger groups. It starts by discussing the proportions of a human adult and proceeds to define the principal terms used in describing anatomy. Subsequent illustrations depict the skull, bones, muscles, veins, and other aspects of the human figure. In addition to captions, the images ar…
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