The Drawing Spirit

List of contents

Preliminaries
Copyright and publishing information
Dedication and Quotes
Acknowledgements
About Neil Watson
Preface
Introduction

Part 1 Recognising the Drawing Spirit
Some aspects of Creativity in the Visual Arts
Getting into the Right Frame of Mind

Part 2 The way we see
Light, Optics and the beginnings of Vision
Visual Perception
Pictorial Light

Part 3 The tools we use
Some aspects of Materials

Part 4 How the tools are held and used
The Physiology and Ergonomics of the Drawing Hand

Part 5 Beginning to build a framework for your drawings
Scale, Space and Perspective
Composition 1

Part 6 What the tools are used for; the Pictorial Elements
Starting points
Line
Tone and Value
Mark
Shape, Area and Edge
Texture
Volume
Colour

Part 7 How the pictorial elements are combined;
more compositional principles
Composition 2
Form and Style

Part 8 The Drawing Spirit in action
Working practices

Part 9 About the Images

Part 10 The Images
Images of the Human Figure, Part 1
Images of the Human Figure, Part 2
Sketchbook Pages
Images of Buildings
Images of Boats
Images of the Natural Landscape
Mixed Media and Experimental work

Part 11 Conclusions
Postscript
Information about the production of the CD-ROM
Bibliography

Sample Pages
Sample Images
Recent Review of this CD
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