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Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Hi Everybody!
Every so often, it's good to share the names of our favorite books.
Two of my favorites are Richard G. Hatton's "Figure Drawing" and "Figure Composition". The first is a fairly thorough life drawing class. The second is more about composition.
If you have any favorite life drawing, painting or other classical books that were really a help to you, please share their names with us!
Barb Solomon 
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08-20-2006, 06:58 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Goodie Books! 
I can start out with a few...
Encyclopaedia of Drawing
Materials, technique and style
Clive Ashwin
NorthLight
Perspective for Artists
Rex Vicat Cole
Dover Books
Painting Methods of the Impressionists
Dunstan
Watson Guptill
Techniques of the Great Masters of Art
Chartwell Books
Leonardo’s Notebooks
Edited by
H. Anna Suh
BlackDog & Leventhal
The Mirror of the Gods
How Renaissance Artists
Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
Malcolm Bull
Enduring Creation
Art, Pain, and Fortitude
Nigel Spivey
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08-20-2006, 07:52 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
There’s a couple of new ones for my list! Heavenly!
Here’s a few favorites from by bookshelves!
Frederick Taubes “Oil Painting for the Beginners”, he’s got a wonderful portrait book, and a couple on historical methods. Some may debate certain points but they are worth reading.
Jack Hamm has 3 or 4 drawing books. His figure book is one of the best for a beginner. His scenery drawing book is excellent too.
Anthony Ryder “Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing”
Hall’s Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
Drawing Nature by Stanley Maltzman
Painting Shapes and Edges by Hazel Harrison
Art and Experience in Classical Greece by J. J. Pollit
The Art of Figure Drawing by Clem Robins
Barb Solomon
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08-20-2006, 09:11 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Yep, I second the Jack Hamm books.
Anything with pictures I like.......
Taubes I find interesting.
The others you list I haven't read. Will look them up.
I think too a good source looking for tech info is in the museum bulletins.
Two good ones are
The Cleveland Museum of Art
and
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
both of these I know go into detail on artists, periods, etc.
Another author I enjoyed is
Robert Hughes/ Goya
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08-20-2006, 09:20 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Phillip Ball is a science writer but he has written a book about the pigments used in paint. It's historical and discusses how the pigments were discovered. It's called "Bright Earth".
It's been one of the best books that I've read in the last year!
Barb Solomon
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08-20-2006, 09:51 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
hehe, you know artists where the first scientists!
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08-20-2006, 10:15 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
One of the contemporary career tests puts the two personalities about a hair off of each other. There are similarities!
But I also remember, in art school, the profs thought that the two were polar opposites! (  )
More from my collection:
Roberta Carter Clark "How to Paint Living Portraits"
Jose M. Parramon "The Big Book of Oil Painting". This is one of his better books. Actually, there are so many Parramon books out there and some of them are fairly cheap. They are worth looking at if you run across one, there's always a kernel or two in them. His book on "Light and Shade" is one of the best. The book "How to Draw With Charcoal, Sanguine, and Chalk " is also one of his best.
Frank Lohan's "Pen and Ink Techniques" does demonstate traditional hatching methods fairly well. I've read that earlier generations stressed drawing with pen and ink even more than charcoal drawing.
Gene Franks "Pencil Drawing" The descriptions of how to hold the pencil and draw use the more classical approach.
Stephen Peck "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" - a true classic!
I've read other good books by Robert Hughes!
You are also right about the tech bulletins! They do have quite a bit on how paintings were made. Some of the art history journals do too, if you get to know the right authors.
Barb Solomon
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08-20-2006, 10:16 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
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08-20-2006, 10:47 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
oh, sweet, no ......I didn't know you use to be a librarian!
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08-20-2006, 10:51 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Another on pen & ink
Not on the history but a manual on techniques.
Ink Drawing Techniques
Complete Handbook of
Pen, Brush and Ink
Drawing Methods
Henry C Pitz
Watson Guptill
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08-20-2006, 10:57 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
My book collection definite has been influenced by those years!
Here's another unusual classic -
"The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression" by Gary Faigan
"Practical Art School" by Ian Simpson This could be good for newer painters but, it has a bit of all sorts of things.
Also: "The Complete Drawing Course" and "The Complete Painting Course"
In spite of the title, I think that it would be better to have worked for a bit before using these, but I liked them for moving from sketches from life to finished pieces.
"A step by Step Guide to Drawing the Figure" and "How to Draw the Human Figure, A Complete Guide" by John Raynes This goes into drawing the figure in different poses in a way that I haven't seen covered in too many other books.
Barb Solomon
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08-20-2006, 11:01 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
I've read "Ink Drawing Techniques" a while back! It is very interesting!
Also, Henry Pitz is really good old time author.
So many of my favorite books are really best found in second hand stores.
Barb
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08-21-2006, 03:55 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Wow,memories Birthday Barb,
I got the Hatton,Composition back in 83 or so
from a book pedlar,out of his suitcase,on one of
the London park sidewalks.
A very helpful,but not very popular book,is
Notes on the Science of Picture Making - Holmes.
Found in a bookstore outside of Winsor Castle.
One you might never have seen,
Permanent Pictures - Toch
Please take into account the timeframe of
these books,as versus,modern research-o.k.
A rare one,and I don't know how helpful.
Drawing without a master--Madame Cave
[1868]
Have fun.
Titanium
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Heat -Bodied Oil is the vehicle of all Hand Mulled Paint . A very little Stand Oil is needed as medium or to oil out .
Medium is used only in the last coat/s if needed at all.
In the good company of Old and New Masters.
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08-21-2006, 09:02 PM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Titanium - Thanks for the birthday wishes!
That sounds like a great place to look for books! I love old second hand books!
Thanks for the suggestions. I think that a couple of them are in the university library in town. I should check!
You are right about the information. The old books have explanations of techniques and aspects of painting that aren’t covered as much any more, but there is something to say for modern paints and mediums.
It's good hearing from you!
Barb Solomon
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08-22-2006, 12:49 AM
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Re: Favorite Books for Learning Classical Techniques!
Same book from above that I first posted.
Why is it good?
Let some pic's do the talking.
Encyclopaedia of Drawing
Materials, technique and style
Clive Ashwin
NorthLight
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