Creative Drawing: A practical guide to using pencil, crayon, pastel, ink and watercolour

by Barrington Barber

Overview

This fully illustrated user-friendly guide by best-selling artist Barrington Barber reveals the skills required to meet the demands of drawing with a range of media. It demonstrates how we can develop our artistic abilities and respond to the world around us in a creative and absorbing way.

• A step-by-step approach teaches techniques in handling coloured pencil, crayon, pastel, ink and watercolour
• The essential skills required to record a variety of subjects are taught, including perspective and composition
• The most popular practical art genres are covered, from still life, landscape and drawing animals to the human figure and portraiture

Encouraging and inspirational, Barrington Barber takes the fear out of learning while ensuring that his pupils are fully equipped to find their own style through the sheer joy of experimentation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398803206
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	10/09/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	49 MB
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About the Author

Barrington Barber is a renowned authority on teaching drawing and a practising artist. After training as a graphic designer, he went into advertising, working for top agencies before progressing to freelance design and producing illustrations for a range of books and magazines. He taught art for many years and has written and illustrated books including The Fundamentals of Drawing Portraits and The Fundamentals of Drawing Still Life. He lives in Wimbledon, London.
Born 1934, Barrington was educated at Hampton Grammar School and later Twickenham Art Schoo for which he received a National Diploma of Design. He then practised as an illustrator (Saxon Artist) and Graphic Designer, was Art Director at Ogilvie&Mather and S.H. Bensons, and was a lecturer in Graphic Design at Ealing Art School. Other credits include freelance work, designer, illustrator, animator and painter at Augustine Studios. He was awarded a one man exhibition in 2000 at St. Oswald Studios, and also exhibited in Putney in 2003 and Cork Street in 2004. He was Head of Art at St James's Independent Schools. He now paints, draws, writes about art, and enjoys sports, walking, philosophy and meditation.