A main difference between these volumes and others on the same subjects is that they are strongly influenced by the wide ranging and innovative research undertaken by the author and colleagues into how artists use their eyes when drawing and painting.
CONTENTS LISTS
Below are the contents lists for the four volumes on art practice:
1. Understanding Drawing
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book 1 -‘Drawing with Feeling’
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book 2 ‘Drawing with knowledge’
2. Understanding Painting
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book 1 – ‘Painting with Light’
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book 2 – ‘Painting with Colour’
3. Understanding Creativity
4. Related Science
5. Extracts from the Glossary (in process)
6. Miscellaneous
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INTRODUCTORY
VOLUME ONE :
“UNDERSTANDING DRAWING”
BOOK 1 : “DRAWING WITH FEELING”
- Introduction to book 1 of “Drawing with Feeling”
- Chapter 1: Accuracy versus expression
- Chapter 2: Traditional artistic practices
- Chapter 3: Modernist ideas that fed into new teaching methods
- Chapter 4: the sketch and explaining the feel-system
- Chapter 5: Negative spaces
- Chapter 6: Contour drawing
- Chapter 7: Copying Photographs
- Chapter 8: Movement, speed & memory
- Chapter 9: The drawing lesson-preparation
- Chapter 10: The drawing lesson
- Chapter 11: The drawing lesson-conclusion
- Chapter 12: Criticisms and answers
BOOK 2 : “DRAWING WITH KNOWLEDGE”
The chapters so far loaded:
- Chapter 13 : Introduction to “Drawing with Knowledge”
- Chapter 14 : Linear Perspective
- Chapter 15 : Some core ideas
- Chapter 16 : Eye-line problems
- Chapter 17 : Head movement opportunities
- Chapter 18 : Axes of symmetry
- Chapter 19: Anatomy reviewed
- Chapter 20 : Structural basics
- Chapter 21 : Deformations – muscles, fat, clothes
- Chapter 22 : A bridge to Creativity
Other posts on drawing can be found under “miscellaneous”:
VOLUME TWO:
“UNDERSTANDING PAINTING”
BOOK 1 : “PAINTING WITH LIGHT”
- Contents list for BOOK 1: “Painting with Light”
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 : The dogmas
- Chapter 2 : Doubts
- Chapter 3 : The nature of painting
- Chapter 4: Renaissance ideas
- Chapter 5 : New Science on offer
- Chapter 6 : Early Modernist Painters
- Chapter 7 : The perception of surface
- Chapter 8 : Seurat and Painting with Light
- Chapter 9 : Seeing Light
- Chapter 10 : Illusory pictorial space and light
- Chapter 11 : Colour mixing – definitions and misconceptions
- Chapter 12: The colour circle: Misunderstandings
- Chapter 13 : Finding a maximum of colours
- Chapter 14 – Colour mixing made easy
- Chapter 15 – Colour mixing by layering
- Chapter 16 – Reviewing previous chapters (1)
- Chapter 17 – Reviewing previous chapters (2)
- Chapter 18 – “All you need to know about painting” – No 2
BOOK 2 : “PAINTING WITH COLOUR”
- Contents list for BOOK 2: “Painting with Colour”
- Chapter 19 -Colour and feeling
- Chapter 20 – Optical mixing and its legacy
- Chapter 21 – Colour contrast effects
- Chapter 22 – Thin Lines
- Chapter 23 – More on viewing conditions
- Chapter 24 – Colour and Surface
- Chapter 25 – Chiaroscuro
- Chapter 26 – Cast shadows
- Chapter 27 – Shading and surface form
- Chapter 28 – A synthesis of ideas
- Chapter 29 – More on experienced reality
- Chapter 30 – Practical Applications
ADDITIONAL POSTS ON LIGHT AND COLOUR IN PAINTINGS
- What does the word “colour” mean?
- What are colourists? (1): Some of the many meanings of the word
- What are colourists? (2): Difference between meaning of the phrases “Venetian Colourists” and “Modernist Colourists”?
- Modernist painters and illusory pictorial space
- The integrity of the picture surface
VOLUME THREE :
“UNDERSTANDING CREATIVITY”
The chapters so far loaded:
- Chapter 6 : The Modernist experiment
- Chapter 7 : “The first Modern Painter”: A surprise suggestion
- Chapter 8 : A Modernist painter still at work in the 21st century
- Chapter 10 : “Having fun with creativity” (extracts only)
- An inspirational story: a child draws a potato
- The nature of truth
- The case for being a flat earther
- Playful fancies as a stimulus to creativity
- Antoni Tàpies advocates playing games
- Cézanne falls short
- False confidence
- Self deception
- Free will and determinism
- Definitions of the words “abstract” and “constructivist”
- Mini chaos as an engine of creativity
- Chapter 11 – Eight endings
- The human visual system
- Creativity
- Heredity and learning
- Painting is like writing
- Serious ambition
- Living with uncertainty
- Seeking validation
- The goose in the bottle
VOLUME FOUR : “UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE: Experiments and ideas underpinning my books”
The chapters so far loaded, all of which deal with subjects that feature in the other three volumes
- Chapter 6 – illusory pictorial space
- Chapter 7 – An artist among scientists
- Chapter 8 – The drawing experiments
- Chapter 9 – Constraint in artistic aids and practices
- Chapter 10 – Blindsight and the bakery facade
- Chapter 11 – Movement, surface form and spatial layout
- Chapter 12 – Body colour and local colour interactions
- Chapter 13 – Colour Constancy
- Chapter 15 – The other constancies
EXTRACTS FROM THE “GLOSSARY”
(other entries on the way)
MISCELLANEOUS
- An inspirational 19th century teacher and his widespread influence on Modernism in drawing and painting
- Surprising eye in diagrams
- Elizabeth Carvé and her great friend Eugene Delacroix
- My debt to the University of Stirling Vision Group acknowledged
- A history of the origins of Castelnau de Montmiral that is nearer to the true story than you will easily find elsewhere
- Ubuntu and the generosity of genes
- Copying Michelangelo
PAINTING SCHOOL MATERIAL FROM FORMER YEARS
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