Sunday, May 11, 2008
A Treatise on Muscular Action
Monday, May 5, 2008
More links about Perspective Drawing


Sunday, April 27, 2008
Perspective Drawing
New ebook on the practice and science of drawing in perspective.
Traite de Perspective a l'usage des Artistes
This bo
ok was the standard text on perspective for the 18th century. It was written by the Astronomer and artist Edme-Sébastien Jeaurat.

Traite de Perspective a l'usage des Artistes
by Edme-Sebastien Jeaurat
Ingenieur - Geographe du Roi.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Costume Design and Illustration
"There are some books which may help the ambitious student in the life
class to observe and impress on the mind fundamental facts which it is
believed most life-class teachers will agree in thinking extremely useful.
Among these are Dunlop's Anatomical Diagrams, Figure Drawing by
Hatton, Anatomy in Art by J. S. Hartley, Richter, Marshall or Duval, and
Drawing the Human Figure by J. H. Vanderpoel. If the student is studying without an instructor, Practical Drawing, by Lutz, will be found helpful."
ETHEL H. TRAPHAGEN. - NEW YORK. 1918.
How to Paint Watercolors by David Cox

David Cox, the English Watercolorist, published a book on how to paint watercolors in 1822 12 years after he was elected President of the Associated Artists of Water Colour. in 1812 he was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colour and a member the following year. He exhibited there most years until his death.
A Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colours
Steve Brodner Draws the Presidential Candidates
In this series of videos New Yorker cartoonist Steve Brodner draws caricatures of the presidential candidates in his inimitable style. You can see him develop the finished watercolor from the first sketch to the final touches.
See all the Youtube Videos of Steve Brodner Drawing the candidates
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The Theory and Practice of Color

This book, published in 1918, is one of the early descriptions of the use of pigment.
It includes clear descriptions of primary, binary, and complimentary colors as well as tints, shades and grayed colors.
The best features are the charts of colors which are hand painted onto separate pieces of paper and glued to the pages in the original book making the colors vivid and true and easy to understand.
The Theory and Practice of Color by Bonnie E. Snow and Hugo B. Froehlich





