Description
A distinctive, sensible guide that allows readers to turn out to be an apprentice to some of the international’s largest painters.
How can a brand new painter move approximately finding out the tactics and techniques of a protracted-lifeless grasp? Drawing on years of study and apply, Tony Smibert brings us a digital apprenticeship, sharing his personal means and means that emulates J. M. W. Turner and but is latest, authentic, and cutting edge. Turner had an atypical capability to color in ways in which confounded his contemporaries and nonetheless amaze us these days; Smibert’s means of portray in Turner’s taste ingeniously attracts in combination concepts and ideas from East and West to convey out a completely new viewpoint on Turner’s apply.
A running guide, Turner’s Apprentice brings in combination components of apply from historical masters, together with Claude Lorrain and Claude Monet. It is a guide for someone aspiring to be informed from any grasp. Totally illustrated with works by means of Turner and different leading artists, in addition to sensible, step by step demonstrations, it gives an excellent better half for someone looking for to bear in mind by means of doing. Even for many who might by no means paint, Turner’s Apprentice gives a tantalizing glimpse of the joys of portray and finding out.
2 hundred+ illustrations
