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B19. Drawing for Calligraphers -- Book List
Recommended Books:
B3030. The Drawing Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist by Richard McDaniel. $19.95
B3031. Keys to Drawing With Imagination by Bert Dodson $29.95.
B2859. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. $16.95
B2860. How to Draw What You See by Rudy De Reyna Paper $17.95
Kristen: Other calligraphy books I recommend to students, even though the class I'm teaching at Letters Mingle Souls is not a lettering class.
B039. The Speedball Textbook by Joanne Fink & Judy Kastin. $9.99.
B2811. The Art & Craft of Hand Lettering by Annie Cicale. $17.95. JNB Pre-order price $16.95
B2769. Foundations of Calligraphy by Sheila Waters. $35.00
Kristen often teaches watercolor workshops & classes at conferences. She recommends these two books:
B2598. The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook by Gordon MacKenzie. $24.95
B2861. Exploring Color by Nita Leland. $24.99
B19. Drawing for Calligraphers -- Supplies
NEED TO BRING: Basic Tool Kit; woodless graphite pencils: HB, 2B,
4B, 6B (Pentalic Graphite 8911); other graphite drawing pencils you
have: 2H, HB, 2B, etc.; white charcoal pencil; colored pencils: artist
quality - Prismacolor (set of 12 or more—at least one blue, red
and yellow); Pentel Clic eraser; folded ruling pen and holder and/
or other ruling pens you have; flexible pointed nib and holder (not
too sharp—Brause Steno Pen No. 361); drawing pad: Strathmore
Series 400 (regular surface, not smooth, 11"x14"); sketchbook:
spiral bound (paper with a little tooth is nice, 11" x 14"); fine art
papers: one black and one medium colored (e.g., Canson Mi-
Teintes); stylus or embossing tool.
OPTIONAL: Walnut ink; Pigma
Micron markers; Speedball "B"nibs; mechanical pencil: .5mm HB or
B; watercolor colored pencils.
MATERIALS FEE: $15-17 [includes
fresh fruit and flower models, drawing kit, and miscellaneous items].
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B3030. Drawing Book: Materials & Techniques / McDaniel
The Drawing Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist. By Richard McDaniel. 1995. 175pp. 8.5"x10.5". Paper. Copies have some shelf wear.
A comprehensive instructional book for drawing. Chapters include Materials and Tools including pencils, graphite, pens, inks and papers; Drawing with Line and Tone, Drawing with Color and From Drawing to Painting.
Recommended by Kristen Doty for her Drawing for Calligraphers cass at Letters Mingle Souls, 2008.
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B3031. Keys to Drawing with Imagination / Dodson
Keys to Drawing with Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing Creativity. By Bert Dotson. 2007. 192pp. 9.5"x11.25". Hardcover hidden spiral.
This book uses fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively. It gives you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies. You'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile.
Through 58 strategies, 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to:
- Take your doodling from mindless to masterful
- Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects
- Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original
- Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor
- Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings
- Play with patterns to create captivating compositions
- Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures
- Develop a theme in your work
Dodson, author of Keys to Drawing, offers priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 60 years of drawing and teaching.
Recommended by Kristen Dody for her Drawing for Calligraphers class at Letters Mingle Souls, Summer 2008.
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B2859. New Drawing on Right Side of Brain
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in EnhancingCreativity and the Artistic Confidence
By Betty Edwards
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B2860. How to Draw What you See / De Reyna
How to Draw What You See. By Rudy De Reyna. 1970. 175pp. 7"x10" Paper.
This instructional book shows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an object-cube, cylinder, cone, or sphere-and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains. Part One discusses the fundamentals of drawing with the pencil and includes a series of projects that start at the basic and become more complex as you learn. In Part Two, the author explains how to use wash, opaque, watercolor, and acrylic while providing exercises for you to become proficient in their use. For 35 years artists have learned to draw what they see, to capture the world around them, using de Reyna's methods.
Recommended by Kristen Doty for her Drawing for Calligraphers class at Letters Mingles Souls.
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B039. Speedball Textbook: 23d Edition
The Speedball Textbook
Edited by Joanne Fink & Judy Kastin. 23rd ed. 1999. 96pp. 5.75"x8.5". Paper
A worthy manual with alphabets and examples by leading calligraphers. Includes monoline roman, edged pen roman (S.Waters), foundational (Winters), versals (Wronker), knotted letters (Van Stone), uncial, Carolingian (S.Waters), blackletter (Dunham), gothicized italic (Marcy Robinson,
Morentz), italic (Sheila & Julian Waters), copperplate (Caroline Paget Leake), Spencerian, Neuland, flat brush, pointed brush (Holliday & Reaves), italic handwriting, and Hebrew.Many examples of calligraphy and its uses. 16 full color pages! For beginner through advanced.
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B2811. A&C Hand Lettering PAPERBACK/Cicale
The Art and Craft of Hand Lettering
By Annie Cicale. 2004. 192pp. 10"x10". Paper. Retail Price
$17.95.
Annie Cicale is well known to calligraphers throughout the USA and Canada from the many workshops and classes she has taught for guilds and at many of the summer
conferences. She now has a book with fine alphabets and good instruction. Exemplars include foundational, italic, roman, black letter, uncial, italic handwriting, pointed pen, brush lettering and ruling pen alphabets. She covers
design and includes a generous gallery. Color throughout.
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B2769. Foundations of Calligraphy
Foundations of Calligraphy
By Sheila Waters. 2006. 126pp. 9"x11.25". Concealed spiral binding $35.00
Sheila Waters’ Foundations of Calligraphy is now in its second printing.
Foundations of Calligrahy provides the insightful analysis of forms and construction that takes the mystery out of learning calligraphy. Her instruction helps you learn how to analyze a script on your own to help you toward mastery of an alphabet. In the 110 pages of exemplar alphabets, instruction, and hints, Sheila shares with you the knowledge she has gathered over her years of study and practice. The presentation is honed by her experience teaching calligraphers how to advance their skill and art.
Chapters include Basics & Beyond, Analysis & Practice, Design & Layout, Conception to Completion, and Applying Design Principles. Foundational, Blackletter, Gothic Cursives, Uncial & Half Uncial, Carolingian, Italic, and Italic Variations are covered with through instruction for each. Foundational and Italic receive particular attention.
Sheila Waters is not only a master scribe, but a master teacher. She has made both her life's work. For over 20 years of summer workshops, she took scribes through their paces for up to six weeks of in-depth instruction in letterforms (historical and modern) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Students came from as far away as Australia and Japan for these intensive classes. Throughout the rest of the year she taught and continues to teach many weekend workshops sponsored by calligraphy guilds throughout the USA and Canada. She is also a frequent instructor at the international calligraphy conference held each summer.
Free shipping for Foreign orders in multiples of five. (through Dec 31, 2008) click for details
Read more about Sheila and her work, courtesy of The Gettysburg Companion.
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B2598. Watercolorist's Essential Notebook
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B2861. Exploring Color / Leland
Exploring Color: How to use and control color in your painting. By Nita Leland. 1998. 144pp. 8.5"x11". Paper.
In this classic book, popular workshop instructor Nita Leland illustrates the principles of color with step-by-step demonstrations and finished paintings. You'll find 87 exercises that help you apply this information in your own work. Chapters include information on the history of color and how it has been used, charts that show how the colors appear and how you can mix colors to create your own, how to use compatible colors and colors that contrast, ways to use light and shadow to make your art come alive, and learn how to unify color and design to create a well-planned composition.
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S142. Design Drawing Pencils
Design Drawing Pencils
Design 3800.
"6H" is hardest lead. "5B" is softest lead, Specify 6H, 5H, 4H, 3H, 2H, HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B.
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