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Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner

A sophisticated primer that blends colored pencil techniques
with timeless art principles.

A book rich with colorful drawings, illustrations, and clearly presented demonstrations by Borgeson. Its concepts and artwork will provide new respect for this exciting medium. And for those aiming at a fulfilling career in fine art or illustration it also includes some straight talk about managing and living a life in art.

Now in its fifth printing. -- $ 20.00
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The Colored Pencil, Revised Edition

This edition continues to provide the most authoritative and detailed technical instruction available anywhere on the use of colored pencils. 

With elegant techniques and clear step-by-step illustrations by Borgeson and other successful artists this landmark book leads beginning as well as more advanced artists to greater skill in this modern medium.

Over 120,000 copies sold. -- $ 20.00
"Bet Borgeson...has combined technical prowess, writing skills and fundamentals of color theory into a book that is a tour de force of the field... The book invites and stimulates the reader to realize the rich potential available through colored pencil drawing."

--Gordon W. Gilkey, Curator, Retired, Prints and Drawings,
Portland [Oregon] Art Museum
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Basic Colored Pencil Techniques

Dispels myths about this medium requiring endless weeks of tedious deep layering to complete a drawing.

The premise of this book is to integrate fast working and time saving methods with standard layering techniques while preserving the nuance-filled color mixtures for which this medium is best known.

Now in its Tenth Printing. -- $ 18.00
(Parts of this book previously published in Colored Pencil Fast Techniques.)

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Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
by Robert Beverly Hale

Invaluable for all artists regardless of skill level or medium, Hale explains underlying art principles and practices used in 100 master drawings. In our time the term "master teacher" is often over-used, but Robert Beverly Hale was truly an authentic master during the last half of the 20th Century. An impressive classical draftsman himself, he taught drawing and anatomy courses at the Art Students League of NY and at Columbia University. He was curator of American Painting and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an author of fiction and poetry for The New Yorker magazine. In addition to guiding many nationally and internationally recognized artists, his lasting legacy is this book.
Each section (of seven) begins with an essay about specific art concepts, followed by a master drawing accompanied by a brilliant analysis of the principles, techniques and practices used in it. Every unit is valuable, but "Unit Three - Light and Planes," may be life-changing for anyone drawing or painting realistically or representationally--regardless of genre.

The Art Spirit
by Robert Henri

85th Anniversary Edition

A new edition of Robert Henri's revered art classic (originally published in 1923) is now presented in a larger and easier to read format, and with an updated and reconsidered index.

This book states the essential beliefs and theories of a great American teacher and artist. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiring prose on every page.This is a book that you will refer to when you feel the need to be among others of your kind--with the artistic kinship that flows through these pages.

"I would give anything to have come by this book years ago. It is in my opinion comparable only to the notes of Leonardo and Sir Joshua...One of the finest voices which express the philosophy of modern men in painting." -- George Bellows

The Enjoyment and Use of Color
by Walter Sargent

When a book about color theory contains only seven color plates, yet is valued and reprinted for decades, it must have some special quality. This book does, and may be because Sargent had to rely on the written word without benefit of many illustrations to inform and excite us about color ideas. Through his words we literally catch his love and enthusiasm for the incredible properties and power of color.

With page after page of color concepts that are astonishing and nearly unforgettable in their logic and clarity, this is a book that may incite many marginal notes and exclamations. It may also be read and re-read for years to come. Often books on color theory seem heavy, dry, and pedantic. But not this one. First printed in 1923, Walter Sargent was Professor of Art Education and Chairman of the Department of Art, at The University of Chicago.

The Enjoyment and Use of Color

How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul

by Caroll Michels

Michels is a sculptor and professional career coach living on the East Coast, and has gathered information on many aspects of promoting and marketing artists and artwork. This paperback is encyclopedic and that may be a hint on how to use it--as a reference book when questions of how best to handle things that arise in your own career. But if you try to sit down and read it all in one sitting, you may become intimidated, may even become depressed at the seeming enormity of it all.

Yet there may be no other book on the subject this complete, this organized--and this well indexed.

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