The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Light (eBook)

Portraying Light Effects in On-Location Drawing and Painting

Katie Woodward (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
112 Seiten
Quarry Books (Verlag)
978-0-7603-7204-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Light is an informative guide to heightening the impact of your artwork by capturing the look and subtleties of light in any scene. In settings ranging from fields and mountains at daybreak to neon cityscapes at midnight, learn how to express light effects through color and value to improve and refine your drawings and paintings. Artist and urban sketcher Katie Woodward offers strategies for: Selectively translating values for maximum effectUsing your sketchbook to experiment with the effects of natural as well as artificial lightConsidering many options for visual solutions through work contributed by experienced urban sketchers Master the art of rendering light with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Light as your guide. The Urban Sketching Handbook series offers location artists expert instruction on creative techniques, on-location tips and advice, and an abundance of visual inspiration. These handy references come in a compact, easy-to-carry formatperfect to toss in your backpack or artist's tote.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Urban Sketching Handbooks
• Reihe/Serie: Urban Sketching Handbooks
• Zusatzinfo: 100 color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
• Schlagworte: Artificial • Artist • artistic license • art student • Atmospheric • backlight • backlit leaves • Basics • beams • Building • Capture • challenge • City • cityscape • clear glass • Color • Cool • Corona • create atmosphere • dappled • drawing • edge lighting • Elements • essential terms • foliage • Follow • frontlight • fuzzy • Gradation • Graphite • hard edges • high contrast • Highlights • how to • Indoor • Indoors • INK • Interior • interior light • LAMP • Landscape • light source • Local • Lowlight • mark making • matte surface • Mirror • mixing mud • Mood • Neon • night scene • Observation • Outdoor • painting light and shadow • pencil • Perspective • plein air • Realism • Realistic • reflected • reflective surfaces • shadow • Sharp • sharp reflections • Sketch • Sky • soft • Streetlight • Sun • Sunbeams • Sunlight • Sunrise • Sunset • Surface • Temperature • Tools • translucent objects • Value • warm • warm green • Water • watercolor • White
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-7204-7 / 0760372047
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-7204-3 / 9780760372043