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July 5, 2008

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Drawing: Trees with William F. Powell (HT259)
enlarge	Author: William F. Powell Publisher: Walter Foster Category: Book List Price: ~~$8.95~~ Buy New: $4.70 You Save: $4.25 (47%) Buy New/Used from $2.58 Avg. Customer Rating: (3 reviews) Sales Rank: 195556 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 32 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 10 x 0.3 ISBN: 1560103450 Dewey Decimal Number: 740 EAN: 9781560103455 ASIN: 1560103450 Publication Date: January 1, 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Book Description Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again. What you'll learn from this book ... • Step-by-step processes for drawing trees, from the initial block-in stage to the final details • The fundamentals of shading, composition, and perspective • Basic tree shapes and leaf types • How to make notes and sketches while on location • Skills for creating a focal point in your drawings • Tips on drawing root patterns, branches, bark, and fallen trees • Techniques for drawing cast shadows • How to enhance your tree drawings with ground foliage

Customer Reviews: How to draw June 22, 2008 This book is very thin. It's large in size top to bottom and side and may not fit in your totebag or drawing kit. It has lots of good information for a short book, but the drawings are very sketchy. It you want to draw more realistically, then you need to find a different author. excellent book! October 29, 2007 2 out of 3 found this review helpful excellent book on how to draw trees!shows examples and dissects the tree for you step by step Good value for Beginning Artist/ Amateur Naturalist August 19, 2001 18 out of 18 found this review helpful Drawing Trees is a short, over-sized Art course in itself. It starts simply with pencils, erasers and drawing techniques and builds from there. It does not give step-by-step instruction how to draw individual trees, but instead covers different trees as it imparts various drawing techniques. (For example, various pines, a red maple and a white oak are shown in the section on Tree Shapes). The "lessons" include: Shading; Surface & Textures; Light Values; Perspective; Pictorial Composition;Tree Shapes; Bough & Foliage Shapes; Trunks; Branches & Boughs; Root Patterns; Dead & Fallen Trees; Majestic Oak; and ends with two "scenes" - Sycamore Lane and Sierra Pines. I am not an artist, so while this may be rather basic for the intermediate-advanced artiest, it gave me a perfect blend of how to draw trees (shapes, branches, roots) with basic art concepts (shading, perspective). The size of the book is awkward and I would have paid more for either a laminated or hardbound eidtion to bring out in the field, but for the price, its a great value. Highly recommended!

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