Today I have collected together a few of the top rated drawing books as rated by Amazon reviewers... |
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Drawing Books for Kids 4-8 Drawing People |
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Drawing Books Animals How To Draw 101 Animals |
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Drawing Books for Kids How to Draw Funny People |
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Drawing Books for Kids 9-12 Drawing Monsters |
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Drawing Books How to Draw Princesses, How to Draw Ballerinas, with stickers |
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Today, I'm looking at some christmas stories for those who enjoy a guaranteed happy ending... a little bit of romance should go well with the holly and the mistletoe |
New Blaze Books December 2008 Christmas Books / Christmas Stories Blaze Books 2009 New Stories for January 2009 with Excerpts and Reviews |
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New Blaze Books December 2008 Christmas Books / Christmas Stories |
New Blaze Books December 2008 Christmas Books / Christmas Stories |
New Blaze Books December 2008 Christmas Books / Christmas Stories |
New Blaze Books December 2008 Christmas Books / Christmas Stories |
New Blaze Books November 2008 with Book Reviews |
New Blaze Books October 2008 with Book Reviews |
New Blaze Books September 2008 with Book Reviews |
New Blaze Books August 2008 with Book Reviews |
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How to draw with pen and ink books
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How to paint flowers in watercolor books
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Today, I'm looking at resources for the practicing or aspiring canine artist.
I'll be investigating both webpages and books.
First off the block we have the copy approach from Lee Ames, the Draw 50 Series of books includes Draw 50 Dogs, the Step-By-Step Way to Draw Beagles, Collies, Malamutes, and many more... Search Inside this book.
The 'free' excerpt shows you how to draw an afghan hound ... how to draw a basenji (barkless dog) ... how to draw a basset hound. More details of How To Draw 50 Dogs and watch a Draw a Dog Video, and reviews.
From books to web pages.
Now to some free online dog drawing tutorials:
Draw a Collie with KidsDraw ... a nice collie dog in five steps Go
Also from KidsDraw we have Draw a Doberman Pinscher ... in 4 steps Go
How to Draw a Collie Video on RateMyDrawings... watch a beautiful collie dog appear before your eyes! Go
Also on RateMyDrawings ...
Today, I'm looking at resources for the practicing or aspiring equine artist. I'll be investigating both webpages and books. First off the block we have the copy approach from Lee Ames, the Draw 50 Series of books includes Draw 50 Horses, the Step-By-Step Way to Draw Broncos, Arabians, Thoroughbreds, Dancers, Prancers, and Many More... Search Inside this book... UK USA Canada note: when I created the link the 'free' content in the USA was different from the UK and Canada so look at both! The USA excerpt shows you how to draw a horses head from three different angles.
Today, I'm looking for the best Picasso pages, not sure why, the subject just popped into my head. So here goes...
My first link is of course to the Wikipedia entry, which gives a potted biography, details of his personal life and political views, as well as information about the art he created.
This gave me a link to the 'official' Picasso website, this has a really weird flash interface. There appears to be a lot of material but it takes a little lateral thinking to work out how the interface works! The menu in the middle that looks to be in the way, can be dragged out of the way with the mouse. A video of Picasso in Antibes is included, (at least that was the video on the link when I visited!!!).
Art works by Picasso include:
Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin, 1914 and Child with a Dove, 1901 both at the National Gallery in London.
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At the Guggenheim Museum, New York you should find...
Le Moulin de la Galette, 1900
Woman Ironing, 1904
Fernande with a Black Mantilla, 1905-1906
Carafe, Jug and Fruit Bowl, Summer 1909 which I think I'll add to my list of favourite paintings.
Accordionist, Summer 1911
Landscape at Céret, Summer 1911
The Poet, August 1911
Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc, Spring 1914
Mandolin and Guitar, 1924
The Studio, 1928
Woman with Yellow Hair, 1931 which I quite like, somehow it reminds me of the horses painted by Franz Marc
On the Beach, February 12, 1937
Two Doves with Wings Spread, March 16-19, 1960
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The Art Institute of Chicago has over 300 Picasso art works on their website, including many drawings.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, have over 130 Picasso art works on their website, which can be studied in detail using an enlarger, see this example The Donkey note: the image can be dragged around the page using the mouse.
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden website has at least 35 Picasso images, which can be enlarged, including quite a number of sculptures. Example note: click picture for the full size version.
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The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, has around 28 Picassos on its website, mostly paintings. Example Three women 1908
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If you are feeling really flushed, why not bid on a Picasso at an upcoming auction, Sothebys, Christies and Bonhams hold regular art sales. If like me, you can't afford the originals, then why not splash out for a catalogue? Recently I bought some mixed lots totalling around 200 auction catalogues on Ebay UK, it was quite an eye opener. Many were richly illustrated with works that will have ended up in private collections, as well as galleries. If you are in the states, look at auction catalogs on Ebay USA
Books on Picasso
If you are interested in creating your own original art work, checkout these Drawing and Painting Books
Thank you for visiting, Kay
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