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 Englands Cornish coast; a homestead in New Mexico; a Vermont meadow; and the French countryside.
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