The Elements of Drawing
By Oxford University
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Description
Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies 'The Elements of Drawing', a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/
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1 | Video9. Creativity | Lesson 8. Invention! | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | Video8. Field Notes | Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | Video7. With Colour | Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | Video6. Measured Drawing | Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | Video5. Making a Livelier Drawing | Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | Video4. Toned Paper | Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | Video3. The Edge of the Pencil | Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | Video2. The Tip of the Pencil | Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | Video1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing | Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. | 3/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
The exist of art
I really enjoy these short episodes. There a quick fun bite of artwork. It doesn’t really pop out at me as anything amazing, but in a age of controversy and ugliness, how could we request less beauty?
Worth It
Never seen anything like this-
brief
on point
excellent
pick up a pencil and give it a go
An art instructor thinks this is quality
This is a great approach to Elements and Principles: scientific. After watching this you can move on to abstraction with ease! Or take one of my classes
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