HuaTao's Quick Sketches from Life Models: One to Two Minute, Five to Ten Minute, And Twenty to Thirty Minute Sketching Methods: 1 - Hardcover

Zhang, Hua Tao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1599753782 ISBN 13: 9781599753782

Verlag: Hih Art Studio, 2006

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HuaTao’s Quick Sketches from Life Models is printed?on very high-quality glossy paper in black and white with glossy hard cover, and?glossy printed dust cover. It is 10.5" x 14" in size.The art book focuses on quick sketches and methods of HuaTao Zhang.The book is simple, but elegant. The prose throughout the book is minimal and easy to understand. It is motivational to the?aspiring artist.? The words are accessible, not complicated or lofty. HuaTao's book demonstrates how giving up control of the outcome can produce?artistic truth.?

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This simpl, yet elegant book is a collection os sketches drawn in 1-2 minute, 5-10 minute, and 20-30 minute sittings, using life models. It is also a practical guide to developing a technique for capturing mood, movement, form, anatomy and lighting.Details about materials used by the artist are included in an index at the back of the book. Drawing technique suggestions are included at the beginning of each of the three sections.HuaTao's message to the aspiring artist: make drawings fresh and realistic by using simple methods. Humans have many changing moods and expressions, and HuaTao Zhang shows how to capture these spontaneously and quickly. Immersion in the drawing experience leads to the best results. HuaTao calls this a "happy accident." The graceful and delicate style of HuaTao's drawings gives insight to the aspiring artist and pleasure to all readers.|ON LEFT SIDE FLAP "The wisest person trusts the process, without seeking to control." – the Tao Te Ching HuaTao’s Quick Sketches from Life Models This simple, yet elegant book is a collection of sketches drawn in 1-2 minute, 5-10 minute, and 20-30 minute sittings, using life models. It is also a practical guide to developing a technique for capturing mood, movement, form, anatomy and lighting.Details about materials used by the artist are included in an index at the back of the book. Drawing technique suggestions are included at the beginning of each of the three sections.HuaTao’s message to the aspiring artist: make drawings fresh and realistic by using simple methods. Humans have many changing moods and expressions, and HuaTao Zhang shows how to capture these spontaneously and quickly. Immersion in the drawing experience leads to the best results. HuaTao calls this a "happy accident." The graceful and delicate style of HuaTao’s drawings gives insight to the aspiring artist and pleasure to all readers.ON RIGHT SIDE FLAP HuaTao Zhang is a visual artist. He works as a freelance illustrator and a studio art educator in Northern California. In 1988, he won an award in the Stamp Illustration and Design Competition, sponsored by the United States Postal Service.In 1997, HuaTao received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from Kent State University in Ohio. In 1988, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. In 1981, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Arts/Design at Shanghai Light Industrial College.As a teenager, HuaTao studied visual arts under several professional artists. Prior to his academic training in art, he spent more than three years in self-taught study of sketching and drawing while working at a farm near Shanghai during the late 1970’s. As an artist, he understood the importance of integrating art with one’s own experiences to develop a personal artistic expression and style.In the process of mastering quick sketching, he acquired artistic skills by exploring and cultivating his imagination. He learned to integrate successfully the technical, cultural and creative aspects of visual creation.HuaTao Zhang’s next sketch book, Sketches During the Farm Period: A Personal Visual History From the Late 1970's-The Cultural Revolution Era, will be published in 2007.

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• Verlag: Hih Art Studio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1599753782
• ISBN 13: 9781599753782
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
• Herausgeber: Williams Arline