Art Start: Fundamentals of the Studio

By Dennis Lick

Art Start Fundamentals of the Studio: A Guidebook for Students in the Visual Arts immediately engages the reader with useful guidelines for effective art making. Foundation topics of composition, color, pictorial illusion, formalism, and sculptural space introduce the broad range of conceptual and technical skills necessary in the studio. Subsequent chapters describe the specific skills for working in various specialties, including drawing, painting, collage, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Art Start is presented in conversational and concise language, void of the redundancy and academic jargon of so many art textbooks. The author speaks directly to the reader with advice that can be readily applied to solving the visual problems of art making. Brief chapters on the basics of art history encourage students to locate themselves in relation to their predecessors and contemporaries, and demonstrate how to use that exploration of history as an active resource for inspiring their personal artistic content. Passages throughout the book demonstrate that a robust art education enriches everything else in life and that becoming visually literate is a worthy goal for everyone, not just the artist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1792480350
• ISBN13: 9781792480355
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.