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Drawing in black & white : creative exercises, art techniques, and explorations in positive and negative design / Deborah Velásquez.

Author:

Velasquez, Deborah author.

ISBN:

9781631592805

Personal Author:

Velasquez, Deborah author.

Physical Description:

112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Abstract:

"Hone your drawing skills and you eye for design by learning to draw in black and white. Working with only positive and negative lines and shapes keeps the focus on the basics: composition, balance, and harmony. And using white and black gel, ink, and paint pens on black, tan, and gray papers allows you to experience drawing in a whole new way! Drawing in Black & White is a clever drawing and design book that contains 36 inspiring exercises, a gallery of artwork, and 16 black, gray, and tan sheets for drawing, doodling, and experimenting. You'll find lessons on drawing, pattern drawing, drawing with cut paper, and simple collage. Learn to see your drawings a new way by drawing in black and white!"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Drawing -- Technique.

Format:

Books

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Hone your drawing skills and you eye for design by learning to draw in black and white.

Working with only positive and negative lines and shapes keeps the focus on the basics: composition, balance, and harmony. And using white and black gel, ink, and paint pens on black, tan, and gray papers allows you to experience drawing in a whole new way! Drawing in Black & White is a clever drawing and design book that contains 36 inspiring exercises, a gallery of artwork, and 16 black, gray, and tan sheets for drawing, doodling, and experimenting. You'll find lessons on drawing, pattern drawing, drawing with cut paper, and simple collage. Learn to see your drawings a new way by drawing in black and white!

Author Notes

Deborah Velasquez is an artist-designer and blogger who creates paintings, prints, ceramics, cards, textiles and mobiles. She loves the mix of design, words, art and craft. She studied graphic design and textile and fashion design and has a millinery certification from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She shows her work in galleries, is active on Etsy and on multiple social media platforms, and ran a successful Kickstarter project to get funding to create a larger art print and textile collection using silkscreen equipment. A Brooklyn original, she now lives the creative life in wooded hills of Pleasant Valley, CT with her husband and two sons.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

While confined to only two colors, black and white, this guide's techniques, materials, and tools are not nearly so limited. The 36 exercises provided by artist and blogger Velásquez prompt drawings that use all sorts of pens, markers, pencils, brushes, black-and-white inks, paints, knives, colored papers, collage, stitching, and block printing. The projects are brief and structured like recipes, with a materials list and short procedural instructions meant to be jumping-off points. Numerous intriguing examples of completed exercises are included, and a gallery at the end of the book presents further examples of monochromatic illustrations. VERDICT Readers with some experience drawing and painting are the best audience for this guide, but there is plenty here for beginners and advanced artists, too. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.