Within The Sight-Size Cast is everything you ever wanted to know about Sight-Size cast drawing and painting, impressionistic seeing, and the ways in which many of the ateliers that stem from R. H. Ives Gammell and Richard Lack teach their students. You can learn how to see through Sight-Size with Darren Rousar's book, The Sight-Size Cast.

The first book of its kind, "Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach" teaches the student a systematic way to meet the challenges of drawing.

Nearly 200 plates from the master teacher's famous 19th-century drawing course comprise drawings of casts, chiefly from antiquity; lithographs in the style of drawings by Renaissance and modern masters; and male nudes. This affordable volume constitutes an essential guide for professional artists, students, art historians, and collectors.

After cast drawing, cast painting is the next step for the student at many classical art ateliers. The first book of its kind, Cast Painting Using the Sight-Size Approach provides the student with all of the necessary information to succeed at Sight-Size cast painting in oil. In addition to teaching the theory and processes involved in cast painting, Cast Painting Using the Sight-Size Approach also has sections on materials and stretching canvas as well as a short commentary on the "unity of effect" with selections from R.A.M. Stevenson's 1895 edition of Velasquez. For more information about this and other books in the Sight-Size Library as well as instructional DVD's and Sight-Size in general please direct your web browser to www.Sight-Size.com.

Drawing is not a talent, it's a skill anyone can learn. This is the philosophy of drawing instructor Brent Eviston based on his more than twenty years of teaching. He has tested numerous types of drawing instruction from centuries old classical techniques to contemporary practices and designed an approach that combines tried and true techniques with innovative methods of his own. Now, he shares his secrets with this book that provides the most accessible, streamlined, and effective methods for learning to draw.

Taking the reader through the entire process, beginning with the most basic skills to more advanced such as volumetric drawing, shading, and figure sketching, this book contains numerous projects and guidance on what and how to practice. It also features instructional images and diagrams as well as finished drawings. With this book and a dedication to practice, anyone can learn to draw!

The Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme drawing course was originally published by Goupil & Cie between 1866-1871 and consisted of 187 individual lithographs meant for copying by students at atelier art schools. Many famous artists copied from these plates as part of their art studies including Picasso, Van Gogh, and John Singer Sargent. This books contains 130 illustrations from parts I and III of the drawing course.