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An artist, teacher, and writer, Compton has produced a comprehensive set of exercises designed to develop artistic mastery via analytical and intuitive means. By addressing both technique and expression, artists explore the relationship between what they create in their minds and on paper, concurrently expanding their personal creative processes. Compton's 12-part course in guided experimentation includes an introductory section on depicting edges with a variety of drawing media; then "mind" and "heart" exercises are combined to help artists access their creative resources, culminating in end-of-chapter "studies" involving the use of works by master artists, "morning pages," and painting a still life. As the reader-artist progresses, he or she learns how to use tonal values to achieve three-dimensionality, shape forms via drawing, utilize the unique properties of watercolors and the nuances of color (including value, mood, and "temperature"), and work productively both in the studio and outdoors. Each step in this well-illustrated, endlessly helpful resource brings the artist closer to finding his or her own "voice" or view. Whitney Scott
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Is the relationship between the heart and the mind balanced? Author and artist Annette Compton explores this age-old artistic question in Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart. Creating art inevitably involves a relationship between our minds and our hearts. For some, the mind-the study of technique-plays a major role in the process of being an artist. But what happens when an artist becomes so obsessed with technique that all spontaneous expression is lost? Or, what about artists who become so lost in expression that technique is gone, and they have difficulty with realizing their vision in their work? Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart is a 12-chapter workbook that helps artists explore the interplay between such concepts as line and form, representational and abstract art, the analytical mind and the expressive heart. Each chapter features a series of three innovative and introspective exercises that help the artist move progressively from exploring the linear and the analytical, to creating form through massing and color, and finally on to the freedom tempered by mental discipline that one needs to draw and paint abstractly. Featuring over 200 stunning examples from students as well as recognized artists, this unique resource explores the delicate balance between craft and passion, the technical and the intuitive-and is certain to become a valuable addition to the library of every working artist.
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An artist, teacher, and writer, Compton has produced a comprehensive set of exercises designed to develop artistic mastery via analytical and intuitive means. By addressing both technique and expression, artists explore the relationship between what they create in their minds and on paper, concurrently expanding their personal creative processes. Compton's 12-part course in guided experimentation includes an introductory section on depicting edges with a variety of drawing media; then "mind" and "heart" exercises are combined to help artists access their creative resources, culminating in end-of-chapter "studies" involving the use of works by master artists, "morning pages," and painting a still life. As the reader-artist progresses, he or she learns how to use tonal values to achieve three-dimensionality, shape forms via drawing, utilize the unique properties of watercolors and the nuances of color (including value, mood, and "temperature"), and work productively both in the studio and outdoors. Each step in this well-illustrated, endlessly helpful resource brings the artist closer to finding his or her own "voice" or view. Whitney Scott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
Is the relationship between the heart and the mind balanced? Author and artist Annette Compton explores this age-old artistic question in Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart. Creating art inevitably involves a relationship between our minds and our hearts. For some, the mind-the study of technique-plays a major role in the process of being an artist. But what happens when an artist becomes so obsessed with technique that all spontaneous expression is lost? Or, what about artists who become so lost in expression that technique is gone, and they have difficulty with realizing their vision in their work? Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart is a 12-chapter workbook that helps artists explore the interplay between such concepts as line and form, representational and abstract art, the analytical mind and the expressive heart. Each chapter features a series of three innovative and introspective exercises that help the artist move progressively from exploring the linear and the analytical, to creating form through massing and color, and finally on to the freedom tempered by mental discipline that one needs to draw and paint abstractly. Featuring over 200 stunning examples from students as well as recognized artists, this unique resource explores the delicate balance between craft and passion, the technical and the intuitive-and is certain to become a valuable addition to the library of every working artist.
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