Drawing Sharp Focus Still Lifes

By Robert Zappalorti

Book Overview

Hardcover. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823014355
• ISBN13: 9780823014354
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

For the serious artist

Whether you're a beginner or someone who's been drawing for years,you will learn something from this book. It goes into perspective, shape, proportion, tone and texture. There are many examples to lead the serious artist on a path toward rendering still lifes in a realistic manner. This is quite simply one of the best five overall, and the best on still life and rendering in pencil.

Review of Drawing Sharp Focus Still Lifes

This is a great book for the beginning artist. I was taking an 8-week intro art class when I found this book in the library. When I showed it to my art teacher, and she liked it, I knew I had to buy it.

best I have ever read regarding drawing fundamentals

I have been a professional drawing instructor for over fifteen years and have found this book to be one of the very best for assisting students in grasping the concept of form construction, rendering objects correctly in linear perspective, seeing and building values, and gaining an appreciation of the value of striving for technical skills. Having been educated in an era in which the theory was not to teach "technique" for fear it would stifle a student's creativity (and realizing that this approach was bogus), I can honestly say that Mr. Zappalorti has done his students a great service if his teaching methods are reflected in this text. My sincere congratulation and thanks for a marvelous teaching resource!