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"Drawing and Painting People: A Fresh Approach" is about confident and defiant art. Written by a practising artist and tutor, it contains inspiring examples, thought-provoking insights and practical advice about how to become more expressive and adventurous with your work. It is a book for people who are serious about painting and want to develop work that is personal and exceptional in quality.
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Emily Ball trained at Exeter College of Art, and later at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, and now runs highly successful courses in contemporary painting and drawing, as well as continuing to develop and exhibit her own work as an artist. She has a reputation for providing high-quality tuition to students of all abilities and experiences, and has an uncompromising passion for painting. Resident - Brighton
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book will appeal to all sorts of different people for different reasons. For the practicing artist, the book offers a range of practical exercises that are easy to follow but rigorous in their scope. It takes different aspects of painting that are easy to take for granted and provides you with thoughts, visual examples and exercises that encourage you to look again, reinvent the familiar and approach your work in a new way. That's all good you think, but what makes this book stand out from other practical art books? In two words: Emily Ball. It's the author's voice that makes this book so refreshing. Rather than a rather dry manual, the book describes the experiences of being an artist with humour, warmth and a real depth of understanding about what it's really like to draw and paint. It captures those moments of elation and utter despair with a perceptiveness that is honest and comforting. It's also great that the book includes contributions from several other artists, as this gives a richness and variety to the narration.
But it's not just practicing artists that will love this book - anyone with an appreciation for contemporary art should get a copy. It's an easy to read book with a clear structure to it, which makes it easy to dip in and out of or to work methodically through. And what's more, it's a beautiful coffee table book, containing loads of large images of paintings and drawings as well as photographs that document the process of making art - they make you feel like you're an artist even if you're just sitting with your feet up drooling over the pages! I've left my copy lying around the living room and have enjoyed watching a number of my friends get sucked into the book, regardless of whether they are arty types or not. So if you're reading this review because you're not sure whether to get this book, let me reassure you that you should as it will reward you on many levels. Enjoy!
But it's not just practicing artists that will love this book - anyone with an appreciation for contemporary art should get a copy. It's an easy to read book with a clear structure to it, which makes it easy to dip in and out of or to work methodically through. And what's more, it's a beautiful coffee table book, containing loads of large images of paintings and drawings as well as photographs that document the process of making art - they make you feel like you're an artist even if you're just sitting with your feet up drooling over the pages! I've left my copy lying around the living room and have enjoyed watching a number of my friends get sucked into the book, regardless of whether they are arty types or not. So if you're reading this review because you're not sure whether to get this book, let me reassure you that you should as it will reward you on many levels. Enjoy!
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book draws upon the author's creative practice and experience as a teacher over many years and does indeed live up to the subtitle's promise of a 'fresh approach'. On one level, it's a practical manual offering unexpected and challenging approaches to painting and drawing, but it's also a fascinating portrait of the inner life, struggles and inspiration of an artist working today.
It is vividly illustrated with paintings and drawings by a range her contemporaries, by no means household names, working generally in the area of expressive figuration. The images are often extraordinary. If you're looking for a comprehensive academic manual of artistic techniques then you may find this book disappointing (or even disturbing!). But if you're an artist, at any level, seeking to produce work with greater expression, imagination and individuality, then I highly recommend it. I'd put it alongside Robert Kaupelis' excellent "Experimental Drawing" as one of the two best creative guides that I own.
It is vividly illustrated with paintings and drawings by a range her contemporaries, by no means household names, working generally in the area of expressive figuration. The images are often extraordinary. If you're looking for a comprehensive academic manual of artistic techniques then you may find this book disappointing (or even disturbing!). But if you're an artist, at any level, seeking to produce work with greater expression, imagination and individuality, then I highly recommend it. I'd put it alongside Robert Kaupelis' excellent "Experimental Drawing" as one of the two best creative guides that I own.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just finished reading this book and my mind is buzzing. It is so different as an art book. Full of challenging ideas, exercises,encouragement and 'out of the box' thinking. If anyone wants to escape from doing mundane artwork,this book will propel you into new and exciting directions. It is not for the faint-hearted but for those artists who want to have their complacency seriously challenged, well here you have it! Read this book and you will be the better artist for it.
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Drawing and painting People
The images in this book are very unique to the artists who created them and they do make the viewer pause and study them. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Purple view
LOVE it!
I return to this book again and again. I've shared it with artist friends who have all gone on to buy it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by lesley birch artist
controlling chance and randomness in mark making
To date I have followed just one of the exercises in this book. But this has led to a revised understanding of what those art lessons in college all those years ago were all about. Read more
Published 12 months ago by star sirius
Fresh & inspiring
This is an imaginative & inspiring book, full of great ideas to propel me into new work, enabling me to see the dead wood for the trees.
Published 13 months ago by A. P. Reeves
I adore this book!
Fun and unthreateniing; this is a book for people who are serious about painting but perhaps have forgotten that you can be serious and still have fun. Read more
Published 13 months ago by bookworm
Fresh and invigorating
This really is a fresh approach - unlike the vast majority of art instruction books available this one is not about learning to paint like the author. Read more
Published 20 months ago by curiouscrow
NOT REALLY FRESH...
I bought this book on the basis of all the five star reviews; which just underlines the problem with reviewing art books - everybody has a different view of what constitutes art,... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Jeff Walmsley
not good on technical information
This book was a bit of a disappointment to me. Might be good inspiration for beginners but lacked any technical depth.
Published on 5 May 2010 by T. Dempsey
At last ..
At long last, a how-to-paint book that doesn't patronise the reader or set impossibly tedious tasks. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2010 by Patricia Lean
Alternative
A rather strange book! Impossible to follow this artist's style but does provoke a stimulus to a new viewpoint. Glad to add this book to my collection.
Published on 6 Sep 2009 by Daughter
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