Imagine perspective without painmdash;no T-squares; complicated equations or mechanical termsmdash;just simple instructions and hands-on exercises to teach you how to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. Now go a step furthermdash;imagine having fun with perspective. With this book; you will. Here Phil Metzger give you clear-cut guidelines in everyday termsmdash;with a lot of friendliness and a little humor tossed in along the way. As an experienced artist; he understands how you work; and he knows that the last thing you need is a lot of rigid rules to tie you down. Here youll learn techniques of perspective that will help your creativitymdash;not hinder it. Youll learn how to: Achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes ofmdash;and the distance betweenmdash;similar objects Use soft edged and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away Introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value Draw from any viewpointmdash;on either side; above or below Draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices Use perspective to track down the problem when something youve drawn just doesnt look right Measures relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing pictures and an awkward one Properly draw roads; paths; streets; fields and streams to suggest depth in a scene and to describe the flatness or hilliness of a landscape.
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Review
13 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Painfully tedious...By Redmond GeekProfessor Burrows book consists of chapters enumerating the events of Handels life during specific time periods. alternating with chapters analyzing the music he wrote in those periods.The biographical information is really more of a concordance of other Handel sources than a true biography. Much of the content is commentary on the origins of some particular (tiny) fact. and endless discussions of inconsistencies between one source and another.Whats missing is any sense of the historical context in which the events of Handels life took place. Or conjectures/inferences about why he might have made the choices he made. Whats missing is any kind of narrative flow.I get the sense that Burrows is writing for other Handel scholars rather than for a general audience. The result is that his book reads more like a train schedule than a biography.So. if youre looking for an exhaustive (and exhausting) academic reference work. this is the book for you. If you want something of a more general nature. youd be advised to look elsewhere...
