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Want to learn cast drawing in Sight-Size like atelier students do? Learn the complete approach to Sight-Size cast drawing in your own home with the book Cast Drawing in Sight-Size: An Atelier Manual.
In the book Cast Drawing in Sight-Size, Darren teaches you cast drawing in the way many atelier students are taught. This book explains the complete process of drawing casts in Sight-Size, using three different casts.
Perfect for: Anyone who wants to learn Sight-Size cast drawing with limited expense, and for those who want to supplement their atelier training.
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Want to be shown how to draw casts instead of just reading about it? Learn all about cast drawing in Sight-Size through text and video with the Cast Drawing in Sight-Size video course. On-demand streaming, or download to watch.
In the Cast Drawing in Sight-Size video course, Darren shows you every step involved in drawing plaster casts from life. Included with this video is the PDF eBook version of the Cast Drawing in Sight-Size: An Atelier Manual.
Perfect for: Anyone who cannot attend an atelier but wants the same instruction in written and visual form.
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Want to be shown how to both draw AND paint casts like you would at an atelier? This book presents the complete Sight-Size cast instruction as is given in many of today’s ateliers.
The Sight-Size Cast also covers the complete history of Sight-Size and presents an exhaustive analysis of impressionistic seeing.
Perfect for: Anyone who wants a complete guide to all aspects of Sight-Size cast drawing and painting.
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Want to supplement your Bargue or cast drawing training? The best way to develop an accurate eye is by deliberately practicing discrete skills.
An Accurate Eye contains over two-dozen practical exercises suitable for everyone who wants to improve their visual accuracy. Learn to see and draw better by getting An Accurate Eye.
Perfect for: Everyone who wants to see and draw more accurately.
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Want to be shown how to accurately draw at scale? When you’re not in Sight-Size, you are drawing using Comparative Measurement. It helps to have a trained comparative eye.
A Comparative Eye contains over two-dozen progressive exercises suitable for everyone who wants to improve their visual accuracy when using Comparative Measurement.
Perfect for: Everyone who wants to be able to accurately scale their drawing to what they see.
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Remember that all drawing and painting from life is at some point done from memory, even if that memory is only seconds old.
Want to improve your visual memory? Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall teaches you how to visually perceive and accurately draw those perceptions.
Perfect for: Everyone who wants to learn the history, theory, and practice of improving their visual memory while using their own sources.
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Memory drawing practice is simple, especially when all your sources are created for you.
Do you want to make the most of every glance with the least amount of work? The Memory Drawing Course Book contains 6 months worth of progressive memory drawing exercises, including easy to follow directions.
Perfect for: Everyone who draws, paints, or sculpts from life and wants to improve their visual memory.
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The Hudson River School and the Tonalist Movement are two great periods in American landscape painting.
We are fortunate to have what are considered to be each movement’s textbooks: Asher B. Durand’s, Letters on Landscape Painting (1855) and Birge Harrison’s Landscape Painting (1910). Now, for the first time, both books are available in one volume, Landscape Painting, by Asher B. Durand and Birge Harrison.
Perfect for: Everyone who wants to learn how to draw and paint what they see when in the great outdoors!
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Once a classic drawing instruction manual that was used to teach countless children and young adults how to draw, Drawing Made Easy by E. G. Lutz is now back in print after many years absence.
Hallmarks of Lutz’s approach are simplifying complex shapes as well as working from big to small. These concepts are simple enough for children to understand and yet the same principles are evident in many Old Master drawings.
Also contained within this reprinted volume are selections from Lutz’s earlier book, Practical Drawing.
Perfect for: Children who want to learn how to draw.
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