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 his approach are simplifying complex shapes as well as working from big to small. These concepts, outlined in Drawing Made Easy, 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.

Drawing Made Easy with Selections from Practical Drawing

Arts & Photography

Lutz, E.G.

Drawing

Velatura Press, LLC

After cast drawing, cast painting is the next step for the student at many classical art ateliers. Cast Painting Using the Sight-Size Approach teaches you Sight-Size cast painting as a means to help you learn how to see and paint. Traditionally taught in classical art ateliers, Sight-Size is an approach to drawing and painting from life. It is an arrangement of the artist, the easel, and the subject that allows the artist to see the subject and artwork visually one-to-one. For more information about the updated edition, The Sight-Size Cast, see www.sightsize.com.

Cast Painting Using the Sight-Size Approach

Rousar, Darren R.

Painting

If you think about it, all life drawing and painting is at some point being done from the artist's memory, even if that memory is only a few seconds old. Every time the artist takes their eyes off of the model or scene and looks at their paper or canvas, their visual memory is involved. What if that artist's visual memory was highly trained? That artist might need the model for a shorter period of time, or she might have a more productive time when the model is in pose. He might be better at painting all of the fleeting effects that nature throws at us when we are landscape painting en plein air. Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall exists to guide you in doing just that. It will also help you improve your abilities to remember fleeting effects, seize essentials, and even enhance your imagination. When you want to go beyond the book and make the most of every glance, check out the Memory Drawing course at AtelierRousar.com/MemoryDrawing!

Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall

In 1855, Asher B. Durand, a founder of the National Academy of Design and a leading member of the Hudson River School, wrote a series of articles for his son's art magazine, The Crayon. The nine articles, Letters on Landscape Painting, outlined Durand's thoughts on learning how to paint landscapes. They are considered by many to be the textbook for the Hudson River School. In the early 1900s, Birge Harrison, a prominent figure in the American Tonalist movement and a director of the landscape school of the Art Students League, gave a series of lectures to the students at the League's summer school in Woodstock, New York. He later compiled those twenty-one lectures into the book, Landscape Painting. Then, as now, the book was considered to be a standard work for students. This volume presents Durand's and Harrison's writings together for the first time. We will never know what each might have thought of their words being combined in such a way, however, over the years hundreds of budding landscape painters and professionals alike have found value in these writings. It only seems fitting that the textbooks of two of America's great landscape painting movements be made available in a single work.

Landscape Painting

Durand, Asher B.

Harrison, Birge

Have you ever been desperate for comfort, or felt unable to comfort another in need? My Dance with God was born out of just such a need in my life. I hope that this book will serve as a gift to yourself and others, to provide a place of rest for your heart and eyes, through scripture and images of my artwork.     My Dance With God can be read as a devotional, from front to back, or by jumping around. In either case, grab your favorite cup of tea, sit back and relax. I hope that sharing my journey with you will bring you hope and inspire you to allow God to reveal His compassion for you.     If you would like to learn more from God's word, I have written a companion book called Your Dance With God - Faith Journal. In this book you will find guidelines as to how to use My Dance With God, along with your bible, for personal journaling and private or group study. www.klrousar.com

My Dance with God

Religion & Spirituality

Rousar, Kathleen L.

Christian Books & Bibles

Have you ever purchased a beautiful journal and been afraid to write in it because you think you might "mess it up?" Or, have you found yourself having a hard time knowing just what to write? Your Dance With God - Faith Journal contains suggested guidelines to help get you started. As you read each verse you can ask yourself the simple questions, one at a time, and then write your discoveries and thoughts on the blank pages that follow the verses. There is a section to record your prayers for others, and also a journal section where you can write about how God is personally prompting you to apply the verse to your life today. Assuming that you have the color gift book, My Dance With God, you can view the drawings and paintings while you write about how they minister to you. You can also use the books as an 8 week Bible study with your friends. I hope that sharing my journey through My Dance With God and Your Dance With God - Faith Journal will help you to increase your capacity to receive God's love. My prayer for you is that viewing these paintings and reading God's word will help you to know all the more who you are in Christ as a daughter of the King, in order to be better able to give that love away to others. www.klrousar.com

Your Dance with God - Faith Journal

Product Description Sight-Size /sait-saiz/ n. An arrangement of the artist, their artwork and subject that allows the artist to see the artwork and subject in a one-to-one relationship. It is only through the Sight-Size arrangement that the visual comparison is direct. Sight-Size can be life-size, smaller than life-size, or larger than life-size.Learning how to accurately see, as well as draw, is best done through Sight-Size cast drawing. Ateliers exist worldwide to help you do that. But what if you cannot afford atelier training, or there is not an atelier nearby? Or, perhaps you are already in an atelier and would like to supplement that training?Contained within The Sight-Size Cast is everything you ever wanted to know about Sight-Size cast drawing and painting, impressionistic seeing, and the ways in which many of the ateliers that stem from R. H. Ives Gammell and Richard Lack teach their students.Despite its title, The Sight-Size Cast is as much about learning to see objectively as it is about cast drawing and painting specifically. Using plaster casts in Sight-Size is simply the best means to an end, which is accurate sight.The first part of The Sight-Size Cast is focused on the definitions, history, and theories of Sight-Size. These topics will provide you with a basis for the second and third parts of the book, which are all about action. As such, part two is directly focused on learning to see through Sight-Size cast drawing and part three on Sight-Size cast painting. These teachings will be of immense use to you, whether you are attending an atelier, academy, or are learning on your own.Would you like to read a free chapter of The Sight-Size Cast? Access it at sightsizecast.com Review The Sight-Size Cast by Darren R. Rousar is an exhaustive and detailed book, useful for everyone who looks to better understand the uses of Sight-Size as related to drawing and painting. Sight-Size is a fundamental and necessary tool for the artist in everyday practice. The many examples of the masters that the author uses helps to bind together the true strength of generations of genius and how each resolved the difficult task of recording nature whether a portrait, landscape, or a single cast within the studio through Sight-Size. The Sight-Size Cast is a must read textbook for reference today and for future generations. Sight-Size gets the job done.-Allan R Banks, Painter. Studied with Richard Lack and R. H. Ives Gammell.Darren R. Rousar is the first to admit that learning the demanding and difficult craft of painting is best accomplished under the critical eye of an experienced painter. In fact, it is with that advice that he begins and ends The Sight-Size Cast. How-to books have historically been poor substitutes for studying with such a teacher. However, in The Sight Size Cast, Darren has created a reference which comes as close to the ideal as any instructional book I have read. In it the reader will find the practiced and proven principles which teachers have used for generations explained as clearly and systematically as possible. Sight-Size, as a way of seeing and observing, is explored from both its historical application and its practical value to today's student. Darren's real achievement, however, is his clearly explained and beautifully illustrated step-by-step exposition of the Sight-Size process. Not only is this a wonderful reference for aspiring students, but also for anyone who would like to add to their craft a better understanding of foundational artistic seeing. From technical procedures and tools to history and philosophy, it is all here.-Kirk Richards is an artist, author and teacher from Amarillo, TX who learned Sight-Size during his studies with Richard Lack from 1976-80.For centuries, students began their studies by drawing and painting from antique casts. They learned to see the outside shape and the edge of the shadow and how to model half tones and turn edges - essential skills for any realist

The Sight-Size Cast

Darren R. Rousar

Cast Drawing in Sight-Size: An Atelier Manual

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Velatura Press, LLC publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Velatura Press, LLC

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Velatura Press, LLC publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Drawing Made Easy with Selections from Practical Drawing

Cast Painting Using the Sight-Size Approach

Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall

Landscape Painting

My Dance with God

Your Dance with God - Faith Journal

The Sight-Size Cast

Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall

Cast Drawing in Sight-Size: An Atelier Manual