A Guide to Drawing

Mendelowitz, Daniel M.; Wakeham, Duane A.

ISBN 10: 003055487X / ISBN 13: 9780030554872

Published by Wadsworth Publishing, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Guide to Drawing
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 003055487X
• ISBN 13: 9780030554872
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This classic, comprehensive, and systematic introduction to the art of drawing focuses on the mastery of traditional skills as the basis for expressive drawing.

About the Author

David L. Faber is an American master printmaker and Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at Wake Forest University where he has taught since 1984. He is the lead-author of A GUIDE TO DRAWING. Faber has had 22 solo exhibitions of his work since 1976 and has exhibited in numerous group and invitational exhibitions since 1974. He has lectured and worked as a guest artist in Canada, England, Germany, Italy, and South America. Some of his most notable works include: the Aberdeen Headlands series of chine colle monotypes; the Holstein Poetry-Catenary Curve series of intaglio prints; Saint Anna of Silos and Air; the Germans in Brazil series of lithographs produced in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Ymagos Atelier; the Red Holstein Factor series of plaster-cast intaglio prints; and the Piano Sheaves series of intaglio prints. Among Faber's most practiced printmaking techniques are intaglio, lithography, monotype, and plaster-cast intaglio prints. He specializes in drypoint, engraving, mezzotint, and etching techniques. His prints are held in the permanent collections of The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Art Museum of the Ukraine in Kiev, The U.S. State Department, Washington, DC, and The American Bar Association, Chicago.