Sketching Outdoors

A facility with pencil drawings is a valuable asset for painters in oil and watercolors, and a high-quality pencil sketch ranks as the artistic equal of the best painting. This guide offers beginners step-by-step demonstrations of how to depict clouds, trees, buildings, and other outdoor scenes.Famed for his landscape paintings, author Leonard Richmond provides pencil studies that demonstrate each stage of picture-making, from rough sketch to completed work. Students who copy and memorize the simpler studies can advance to the more complicated pictures, attaining skills that will assist them in drawing directly from life or nature. Using a variety of pencil techniques, Richmond shows how to re-create stormy and tranquil skies, foliage, driftwood and rocks along the seashore, and other outdoor scenery. Students will savor the rich diversity of these illustrative landscapes, which include scenes from England's Cornish coast, a homestead in New Mexico, a Vermont meadow, and the French countryside.

Author: Leonard Richmond
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 11/24/2008
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 10.80w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780486469225
ISBN10: 0486469220
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Techniques | Drawing

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