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Presented in an inspiring and instructive manner, this collection of inventive and stimulating drawing projects is designed to help artists develop their own creativity and discover their own way to draw. Each chapter is written to reflect the way legendary teacher Robert Kaupelis taught his classes at New York University for three decades. Structured like a classroom, the book guides readers to build skills through exercises that are geared toward such challenging themes as contour drawing blindfolded; experimenting with old master drawings; distorting perspective, and using photographs under grids. The text and suggested exercises are illustrated with drawings by old and modern masters, from Michelangelo to Jasper Johns, as well as outstanding student drawings executed using the methods presented in this book.
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Robert Kaupelis was a professor of Art and Art Education at for three decades. His paintings have won acclaim in more than 50 exhibitions.
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This book is about drawing; about the experience of drawing and seeing drawings; and about the possibilities of extending our traditional concepts concerning the parameters of drawing. Read the first page
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85 of 85 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I randomly came across a frayed hardcover edition of this book as a young student about ten years ago and loved it so much that after extending the library loan 5 times I went on to photocopy the entire book (as it was out of print at the time and I was broke anyway). I still tend to think of it as instrumental in the development of my drawing, and am ecstatic it's available again!
Kaupelis' approach is to teach you how to truly engage with things as you draw them. In the beginning of the book he wants you to make marks in novel, fun and seemingly ridiculous ways (now commonly considered the 'right-brain' technique) that make you really look at/experience the subject you're drawing and dispel any notions of what might be a 'correct' representation thereof. He then focusses on aspects of shape, tone, composition etc. before moving on to abstraction and conceptual drawings.
His projects are consistently surprising, playful, adventurous and great fun (I thought), and you do see your drawing ability improve dramatically very quickly as you basically learn from yourself - you're bypassing received ideas and discovering something you've been able to do all along - before developing and shaping it. The 'discovering' part is especially exciting and inspiring as Kaupelis extensively illustrates his points using drawings by old masters, contemporary artists of the time and his own students, encouraging you to give your own work equal importance and learn from them as you would from peers.
Unlike the mass of books trying to teach people how to draw, it doesn't ask you to copy the author's style, to 'imagine things as cubes, cylinders and cones', to copy yet another tedious landscape or still life or supposedly 'proper' drawing. Instead, it wants you to experiment, to free yourself up as well as work hard on the classic elements that make up a great drawing. It's not a patronising 'quick fix guide for amateurs', but an invitation to take your work very seriously indeed while not taking yourself too seriously at all.
The fact that this book hails from the 70s (it's older than I am) might be a turnoff to some, but in my opinion doesn't matter in the slightest - even the later chapter about moving your drawing on and trying out new techhniques and technologies still applies.
Kaupelis' approach is to teach you how to truly engage with things as you draw them. In the beginning of the book he wants you to make marks in novel, fun and seemingly ridiculous ways (now commonly considered the 'right-brain' technique) that make you really look at/experience the subject you're drawing and dispel any notions of what might be a 'correct' representation thereof. He then focusses on aspects of shape, tone, composition etc. before moving on to abstraction and conceptual drawings.
His projects are consistently surprising, playful, adventurous and great fun (I thought), and you do see your drawing ability improve dramatically very quickly as you basically learn from yourself - you're bypassing received ideas and discovering something you've been able to do all along - before developing and shaping it. The 'discovering' part is especially exciting and inspiring as Kaupelis extensively illustrates his points using drawings by old masters, contemporary artists of the time and his own students, encouraging you to give your own work equal importance and learn from them as you would from peers.
Unlike the mass of books trying to teach people how to draw, it doesn't ask you to copy the author's style, to 'imagine things as cubes, cylinders and cones', to copy yet another tedious landscape or still life or supposedly 'proper' drawing. Instead, it wants you to experiment, to free yourself up as well as work hard on the classic elements that make up a great drawing. It's not a patronising 'quick fix guide for amateurs', but an invitation to take your work very seriously indeed while not taking yourself too seriously at all.
The fact that this book hails from the 70s (it's older than I am) might be a turnoff to some, but in my opinion doesn't matter in the slightest - even the later chapter about moving your drawing on and trying out new techhniques and technologies still applies.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This book was first published by Watson-Guptill 30 years ago - hence the subtitle "30th anniversary edition". (The cover of the copy sent to me bore no resemblance to that illustrated here, by the way; the latter is in fact more representative of the contents than the alternative cover of my copy, which suggests that it is more avant garde than it actually is. Beware of buying the same book twice !) The biggest drawback is that the numerous illustrations are poorly reproduced, the white of the drawing paper being shown as mid-grey - reflecting printing technology of the seventies, and losing much delicacy of tone in the process. If that doesn't put you off, then you have a pretty good read; an interesting, entertainingly-written, information-packed book about drawing by an excellent teacher, which covers the whole gamut from Durer, Michaelangelo and other 16th century artists at one extreme, to meaningless scribbles over newspaper share prices and virtually blank paper ("Erased drawing" by Rauschenberg; why didn't I think of that ?) at the other.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book recently and it is really great. I went to art school 20 years ago and I would recommend this book. It is a distillation of some of the best drawing techniques you can try to free the hand - mind and eye. A useful device to create a little discipline with excersises that all help develop your own style. Useful for both teachers and artists. (the copy i got has a white cver and a single ink and pencil sketch). but it is the same book the 30th anniversary ed.
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