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Title: Life Drawing Class by Lucy Watson ISBN: 0-8230-2767-8 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: "pretend you've never seen one before..." OH BROTHER!!!
Comment: "Life Drawing Class" by Lucy Watson:
...begins Chapter 1 under the following headliner:
"When you start drawing figures, pretend you've never seen one before." -Lucy Watson
OH BROTHER! Pullleeeeeezzz!
First of all, nobody needs to "pretend" anything, in order to draw, and secondarily, if drawing is premised upon Watson's requirement that we be able to pretend, a goodly portion of the drawing audience will be unable to proceed. The author's mindset here is absolutely corny to begin with. "Pretend"...ha ha ha So much for chapter 1.
I have continually in my mind, one particular rule regading drawing instruction books. (this is my personal rule, but I find it critical in judging HOW-TO-DRAW books). THOU SHALT NOT, in a beginning drawing book, instruct the student in the use of color and painting. Learning simply to draw is fundamental, and requires the total dedication of most of any beginning book. Watson violates this rule with a foray into the use of color, halfway through this book, which at only 128 pages, is far too short on basic drawing. In my opinion it is the multitude of cloned books like Watson's that cause many beginners to give up drawing (and subsequently, painting as well) as a HOPELESS endeavour, and convince themselves that they just cannot "get it". In fact, it's a clear case of The-Instructor-Just-Cannot-Teach.
The illustrations of drawn figure models are stiff, lifeless and inarticulate. It is MASSIVELY overpriced with an exorbitant list price of $24.95. Is this for real??? Unbelieveable!
I think I'll simply take Lucy Watson's advise in Chapter #1 and "PRETEND" I never saw this book before.
Rating: 5
Summary: A first-rate "how-to" instructional resource
Comment: Life Drawing Class: A Step-by-Step Course In Figure Drawing And Painting by artist and art educator Lucy Watson is a self-teaching or art education course supplement tool for learning how to draw representational art in a variety of different media, including charcoal, chalk pastel, white conte pencil, watercolor, and more. Color illustrations, examples of working from photographs, theory, and practice, all combine for a first-rate "how-to" instructional resource ideal for anyone seeking to improve human figure drawing skills.
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Title: Figure Drawing Workshop by Allan Kraayvanger ISBN: 0823017001 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing by Marijo Moore, Vine, Jr. Deloria ISBN: 1560255110 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (History of the American West Series) by Colin G. Calloway ISBN: 0803215304 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Life Drawing: A Journey to Self-Expression by Bridget Woods ISBN: 1861265980 Publisher: Crowood Press (UK) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Growing a Reader from Birth: Your Child's Path from Language to Literacy by Diane, Ph.D. McGuinness, Diane McGuinness ISBN: 0393058026 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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