Guide to Drawing, A: Sixth Edition

Mendelowitz, Daniel M. , Duane A. Wakeham, David L. Faber

ISBN 10: 0155062107 / ISBN 13: 9780155062108

Published by Wadsworth Thompson, Belmont, CA, 2003

About this Item

378 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, like new. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Looks nearly new and barely used. designed for both beginning and advances drawing classes, this best seller explores all topics, media, and techniques that guide students in mastering basic skills and using those skills creatively and expressively. Record # 32395.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guide to Drawing, A: Sixth Edition
• Publisher: Wadsworth Thompson, Belmont, CA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0155062107
• ISBN 13: 9780155062108
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

One of the most respected and widely used books in its field, A GUIDE TO DRAWING is a classic, comprehensive, and systematic introduction to the art of drawing, focusing 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.