The pleasures of sketching outdoors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoagland, Clayton.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drawing--Study and teaching.

Drawing.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 164 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking Press, 1947.

Summary:

Provides drawings of landscapes, plants, animals, and other aspects of nature, accompanied by comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.

Contents:

The hobby and the art

The anatomy of landscape

Trained observation

Your first field trip

Learn the rules, then break them

Remember Shih T'ao

Keep the subject in view

The horizon 'problem'

Simplify

Groundwork indoors for outdoors

'Muscle training' for skill

Curves and angles

Roughs from the masters

Some basic principles

How to learn composition

Another field trip

Foreground roads

Barns, shacks, and cabins

Near, far, and in between

A chart for values

The foundation of better drawing

The complete view

Sketching from memory

Trees, water, clouds, houses, and figures

Third dimensionin foliage

Foreground flora

Water in many moods and lights

Hills from above and below

Shadows for color and contrast

Those bothersome chimneys, roofs, and windows

Figures to people your landscapes

Sketching under difficulties

The kit in the car

Cows and other fauna

Dabble and like it

Pencils for many purposes

Introducing color

Papers for many uses

Working on tints

What to do with your sketches

Enlarge them for the walls

Ways and means to improve a sketch

New pictures from rough sketches.

Notes:

"A few helpful books" : p. 164.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (torn at front and back) retained.

OCLC:

1464566