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A comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape.
This hands-on and inspirational book will encourage you to meet the exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a variety of media and a wide range of techniques, including pencil, pen, graphite powder, watercolor, water-soluble pencils and Indian ink. As you work through this book, you will look at materials and their qualities then move on to explore how to put these materials to best use when drawing specific types of buildings. You will be led gently through levels of learning, with easy and more challenging exercises progressing your knowledge and developing your skills.
This hands-on and inspirational book will encourage you to meet the exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a variety of media and a wide range of techniques, including pencil, pen, graphite powder, watercolor, water-soluble pencils and Indian ink. As you work through this book, you will look at materials and their qualities then move on to explore how to put these materials to best use when drawing specific types of buildings. You will be led gently through levels of learning, with easy and more challenging exercises progressing your knowledge and developing your skills.
Detailed artworks in a range of styles and media are thoroughly annotated to demonstrate key techniques and important details and there are invaluable exercises for understanding perspective, negative and positive space, tone, choosing details and constructing large-scale images.
The book includes thorough studies of a wide range of different architectural styles, from town houses to rural cottages and barns, from churches and classical architecture to continental cafes and street scenes. Richard Taylor's exquisite drawings and paintings demonstrate the quality of the results that can be achieved by following his helpful guidance and advice.
A comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape.
This hands-on and inspirational book will encourage you to meet the exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a variety of media and a wide range ...
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January 25, 2025
unfortunately this book is just a gallery of beautiful sketches by the authors. If your goal is learning how to draw, it is absolutely not recommended
About the author
Richard Taylor is an experienced and popular artist, who regularly teaches and lectures on all aspects of painting. He is the successful author of several books, including The Watercolourist's Year, Learn to Paint Buildings in Watercolour and Painting Houses and Gardens in Watercolour and was the Consultant and Contributor to The Art Course partwork. He writes for The Artist, Leisure Painter and Artists & Illustrators magazines and has also made several instructional painting videos.
Richard Taylor is an experienced and popular artist, who regularly teaches and lectures on all aspects of painting. He is the successful author of several books, including The Watercolourist's Year, Learn to Paint Buildings in Watercolour and Painting Houses and Gardens in Watercolour and was the...
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