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In Lessons in Classical Drawing, award-winning author, artist, and teacher, Juliette Aristides breaks down the drawing process and shows what all great drawing has in common. The book conveys a start-to-finish overview of the drawing experience and shows what to tackle when first starting a drawing and then how to lay the groundwork for each subsequent step in creating a well-crafted drawing. Packaged with a companion DVD, which aims to eliminate any gaps in the learning process, the reader becomes a virtual participant in a drawing workshop filmed at the Santa Repararta School in Florence, Italy.
About the Author
Juliette Aristides is an extraordinary artist with a deep and well-rounded education in and solid commitment to the atelier movement. She studied at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and various private ateliers. She is currently the instructor of the Aristides Classical Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington. In 2003, Juliette was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. Her work can be seen at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and the Art Renewal Center Living Masters Gallery, www.ArtRenewal.com. She is the author of acclaimed bestsellers Classical Drawing Atelier and Classical Painting Atelier.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've spent the last few hours looking through this book and watching the DVD that came with it. For over 40 years I've been drawing, painting and carving sculptures as a serious hobbie. My book collection exceeds 100. I've attended invaluable classes given by Bernard Dunstan and Rachel Clark to name a few. This book adds to those rich experiences. It goes to the top of my list. I wish I could have got something like it long ago. It has few peers, in my view. Beatifully written. Helpful insights. Amazing illustrations. All presented in a hardback cover that is a joy to hold. Anyone interested in the absorbing power of drawing, anyone wishing to develop their ability to see and experience visual sensitivity, anyone looking for clear quidance will find much in this book and DVD to enjoy. A great big thank you to Juliette Aristes (especially), her publishers and conributors who made this gem possible. I treasure it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I didn't quite expect to see what I did when I opened the package. I didn't even realise I had ordered a hardback.
The book binding is top notch at a very reasonable price... with a DVD too!
If your serious about learning to draw, or just need to brush up on your skills - then this book and very high quality DVD (its a proper DVD - not a computer based one) will help you. Not only in simplifying technical methods (measuring etc), but also in confidence.
I agree with the other reviewers - this book will become a classic and should be on the shelf of every artist.
Absolutely lovely.
The book binding is top notch at a very reasonable price... with a DVD too!
If your serious about learning to draw, or just need to brush up on your skills - then this book and very high quality DVD (its a proper DVD - not a computer based one) will help you. Not only in simplifying technical methods (measuring etc), but also in confidence.
I agree with the other reviewers - this book will become a classic and should be on the shelf of every artist.
Absolutely lovely.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm very impressed with this book. I have Juliette Aristides' earlier book, which is interesting, but here she has gone from strength to stength. The text is clear and takes the reader through the ideas behind the 'atelier' movement, the notion that there is validity in a 'return' to nineteenth century ideas of academy drawing. The book is also a 'how to' and it does step by step analysis very well. There are plenty of examples of both unfinished and highly finished drawings that illustrate the points made. The structure of the book involves breaking drawing down into elements in order to learn aspects that then come together, so copying from the masters (an atelier basic) has a chapter, with later chapters on measuring, line and form. In this sense there is some of the 'orthodox' material one would expect here, but it is all strongly slanted towards accuracy, precision and encouraging the development of a thorough knowledge of what is being looked at. Aristides is convincing because her passion for the type of drawing she advocates is evident and, especially in the accompanying video, the care and craftsmanship she shows are highly impressive - and the same goes for the other artists in the video. In fact, good though the book is it is the free DVD that really raises this to an exceptional piece of work. Aristides herself is excellent, giving beautifully judged demonstrations that are also very well filmed. Her description of the procedure of starting from large, block shapes and refining to detail is impeccably delineated, and of course this, or some variant of it, is absolutely the way to go about making a representationl image, and arguably the best way to go about making any image. In this sense this book/DVD goes beyond the specialist field of academic drawing and I see no reason why it may not become an important addition to the canon of significant 'how to' books from Ruskin to Nicolaides. I can't give it higher praise than that!
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Gorgeous book with top quality instruction
This is a gorgeous book full of first class drawings, both old and new, accompanied by a professional quality DVD in which the author covers key points touched on in the book. Read more
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Drawing and the love of beauty
This is a fine quality book that teaches, in considerable depth, the techniques of classical drawing much as they would have been practised in the studios of the old academic... Read more
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