Award-winning author and artist John Raynes shows you how to develop your drawing style. Gain a wealth of artistic insight and practical knowledge by following his advice that has been successful for over 30 years. He explores shape, form and volume, perspective and structure, composition, light and texture in easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you build your confidence and skill. You can practise your newly acquired skills on still life, landscape, buildings, portraits and figure painting, all executed in a wide range of media from pencil, charcoal and pastel to watercolour pencil and ink. Packed with practical tips and invaluable advice, 'The Complete Drawing Course' will allow you to tackle any subject with confidence.

Overflowing with full-color images that demonstrate techniques and illustrate the correct use of materials, this is an art school in a book. A team of experienced professionals furnishes the budding painter with all the tools to finish a project: invaluable instruction in color theory and composition; the basics of drawing and painting, from strokes to perspective; and meticulous coverage of each medium, from pencil to wax crayon. Detailed exercises cover still lifes, nudes, landscapes, self-portraits, impressionist techniques, and more.

"Your step-by-step guide to drawing and sketching in pencil, ink, charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil"--Cover.

The book is divided into 15 chapters, and as the title suggests, it is planned as a 15-days course wherein all the relevant aspects of drawing and painting have been explained in simple and lucid language with hundreds of illustrations and diagrams. The students while pursuing the course will gradually learn the importance of lines -- thin, thick, straight, dotted, curved, zigzag, horizontal, cross, slanting, etc. They will appreciate the role of shape, light, texture, balance, harmony, contrast, rhythm, tone, emphasis, span, colors, etc. They will develop a perspective and a point of view and will be able to distinguish between light and highlight, shade and shadow. The book, it is hoped, will be found useful by all those persons, young or old, professionals or amateurs, who have some taste, love for art and artistic creations.

This progressive course enables even the complete novice to tap into the magic of drawing, to use art to discover the world, and to create significant personal responses to reality and ideas. 768 illustrations.

The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-