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Toronto: Coles Publishing Company Limited, 1987. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped. CONTENTS: Making a start; Where to find your subject; What to draw with; What to draw on; Looking at detail; Grasping essentials; Perspective and foreshortening; Composition; Step by step; Building a drawing; The study of one plant; Light and effect; A sense of colour in black and white; Character and imagination; Patterns and designs derived from plants. EXCERPT: Making a start - Learning to draw is largely a matter of practice and observation - so draw as much and as often as you can, and use your eyes all the time. Look around you - at chairs, tables, plants, people, pets, buildings, your hand holding this book. Everything is worth drawing. The time you spend on a drawing is not important. A ten-minute sketch can say more than a slow, painstaking drawing that takes many hours . . .. Paperback. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc. SUB-TITLE: A Visual Approach to Thinking, Learning and Communicating. Lightly Scuffed on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Front Cover, Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: You are an artist. No matter what you may think of your present artistic abilities, you can master the fundamentals and the "mysteries" of art. You can use drawing, sketching and visualization in many ways: to enhance your everyday living skills and problem-solving abilities. Exploiting the capabilities and interests all of us begin with as children, this book becomes your practical guide to visual thinking. It provides a wealth of examples (from the simplest to the most complex) and brief, easy-to-grasp discussion of the essential tools, methods and techniques. Use it to make drawing and visualization the rewarding personal or professional tools they can be for you. Draw! Kurt Hanks… Read More

New York: A Pentalic Book - Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. Front Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: Making a start; Where to find your subject; What to draw with; What to draw on; Looking at detail; Grasping essentials; Perspective and foreshortening; Composition; Step by step; Building a drawing; The study of one plant; Light and effect; A sense of colour in black and white; Character and imagination; Patterns and designs derived from plants. EXCERPT: Making a start - Learning to draw is largely a matter of practice and observation - so draw as much and as often as you can, and use your eyes all the time. Look around you - at chairs, tables, plants, people, pets, buildings, your hand holding this book. Everything is worth drawing. The time you spend on a drawing is not important. A ten-minute sketch can say more than a slow, painstaking drawing that takes many hours . . .. First Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Read More