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    Brushwork Technique and Applications: With 52 Color Plates
    Brushwork Technique and Applications: With 52 Color Plates
    Brushwork Technique and Applications: With 52 Color Plates
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    Brushwork Technique and Applications: With 52 Color Plates

    By Stanley Thorogood

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    This handbook and teacher's guide by a noted instructor presents a wealth of annotated illustrations that introduce practice brushstrokes and designs. In addition to instructions on color mixing, paper selection, and proper brush handling, the book features 52 full-color plates. The vibrant illustrations, which also serve as repetition exercises for aspiring pottery artists, incorporate elements of Art Nouveau decor as well as Etruscan and Hispano-Moresque ornaments.
    Stanley Thorogood discusses and depicts various brush strokes, including blob work applied to pattern-making, the formation of patterns from simple strokes, the principle of radiation, and natural and conventional forms drawn with the brush. He further explores the use of the brush in suggesting ideas, the decoration of vase forms, direct freehand drawing and application, and direct designing on given lines. Additional topics include sketching directly from plant life and historic brushwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJun 16, 2015
    ISBN9780486805832
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      Brushwork Technique and Applications - Stanley Thorogood

      PREFACE.

      THE educational value of the use of the brush as a means of expressing form, and training the hand and eye, is gradually being recognised by educational authorities throughout the country.

      I have compiled a few notes and illustrations that may be a guide to Teachers introducing the subject in Elementary and Secondary Schools, and Art Classes. No attempt has been made to arrange the work in progressive stages, as the drawings are not intended to serve as mere exercises or illustrations of design for scholars, but rather as a text-book on the subject of Brush Drawing for Teachers, showing different methods of interpretation, together with Historic examples.

      In many instances the drawings illustrated are mere impressions sketched spontaneously with the brush as one would with a pencil, and are purposely left in that state to show how, in some cases, the brush should be used to sketch out IDEAS only (see Plates XXXII. to XXXVII.). Accuracy of drawing and detail must be the chief aim when working out the finished drawing.

      Such exercise with the brush will be found invaluable, in order to apply it to practical use in designing and sketching from Nature.

      It is a most difficult task to arrange Brush Drawing exercises in progressive stages, and experience teaches one that it is almost unwise to make the attempt.

      In the case of the more advanced patterns or naturalistic studies it is impracticable. In many instances it would be impossible to state which particular example would present the greatest difficulty to the student. The chief aim in the lower classes should be to master the manipulation of simple strokes and the drawing of leaves, vegetable forms, and simple common objects, in silhouette.

      A few photographs taken from the actual work of children attending Elementary Schools, ages varying from 5 to 13 years, have been added to illustrate the various stages of work from the lowest to the

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