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Choose a page number: 1 2 Arts RSS FeedsMalcolm Bull: Climate Change Ethics - For the benefit of anyone who has spent the past decade or so on a different planet, the most frequently asked questions about climate change on this one are as follows. Is it getting warmer? Yes, surface temperatures have risen by 0.8°C from pre-industrial levels. Are humans causing it? Almost certainly. The gases produced by industrialisation and agriculture are known to have an insulating effect, and their concentration in the earth?s atmosphere has increased in line with rising temperatures, while natural causes of global warming have remained constant. Will it get warmer still? Very probably, though no one can accurately predict when or by how much....Feed Source: www.lrb.co.uk Layla Al-Zubaidi: In Syria - ?Welcome to Assad?s Syria,? the signpost at the Lebanese-Syrian border still says, letting the visitor know who owns the country. The ceasefire had just been announced, but few Syrians I knew held out much hope that three hundred UN observers could keep an eye on the whole army. The journey from Beirut to Damascus by shared taxi takes less than three hours. For years I?ve come this way to visit the Syrian side of my family. It was clear that things had changed. Political talk among the passengers used to be limited to hushed complaints about the border police.... Mark Ford: Pound Writes Home - By my count, though I may have missed a few, this is the 25th volume of Ezra Pound?s highly distinctive correspondence to see the light of day. The first selection of his letters, edited by D.D. Paige and culled from the years 1907-41, was published in 1950, when Pound was four years into what would be a 12-year sojourn in St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, to which he?d been confined indefinitely after pleading insanity at his trial for treason in 1946. Paige?s selection introduced to the world madcap Ez the compulsive letter-writer, all hectoring capitals and italics.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 10 (24 May 2012)... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 10 (24 May 2012)... Choose Charcoal for Drawing - Compressed stick charcoal seems to be the default selection for most people starting out in charcoal drawing - perhaps because it's relatively sturdy, uniform and gives a good range of tone - ideal for beginners. There are many other options though, all with slightly different properties which lend themselves to different ways of working. Check out my drawing charcoal review .Choose Charcoal for Drawing originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 06:19:50.... Perspective Basics - Perspective drawing really isn't that scary. The main thing is to start simple - don't leap straight into a three-point drawing of the Leaning Tower of Pizza if you've never even constructed perspective before, ok? Start with a simple box in one-point perspective. When you've got that squared away, try boxes in two-point perspective. You'll need to learn how to divide space. A useful technique is the 'crossed diagonals' method of finding the center of a quadrilateral. And then go ahead and try your hand at thre... White Chalk on Black Paper -
Drawing with white chalk on black paper can look really effective and dramatic. But handled badly, it can also look really 'wrong'! The biggest problem is the temptation to outline in white, where we would normally be using a graphite pencil. The trick is to reverse the way we look at things. With graphite or ink, we draw the darks and shadows, and sometimes don't give the highlights much attention. When drawing with white on black, we need to pay lots of attention to the lights, as well as shading the darker and mid tones lightly to bring them into the correct value range. It's a fantastic mental exercise, even if you prefer to work on white paper, as it will challenge you to really think about what you are drawing and develop your sensitivity to light and shade. If you are a pastelist, working with pure white on black is a useful way to improve your awareness of value without the complicati... Better Photographs Make Better Drawings - It's generally better to draw from life than to draw from a photograph, but sometimes having a subject sit for hours isn't possible. Kids are particularly challenging sitters - they just won't sit still for a moment! If you're going to draw from a photograph, you really need it to be a good one. A well-lit picture with a natural subject is so much easier to draw and will give you really great results. It's particularly important when drawing animals, so I put together a tutorial on photographing your pet for drawing and painting. For more quick, expert advice on taking great photos, head over to About.com's ... Vincent 'Starry Night' Drawing Wallpaper - Hot off the press, here's a wallpaper of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' drawing in ink, with an inspirational quote revealing how Vincent felt about the importance of drawing. There are two versions, one for iPad and one for a small computer desktop. More coming soon! Check out the Starry Night WallpaperVincent 'Starry Night' Drawing Wallpaper originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 09:11:58.Perma... Draw a Viking Warrior - If you love fantasy, action and adventure movies you've probably already seen 'Thor' and 'The Avengers' starring the Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth. The movies are based on the Marvel comic books and so don't spend much time in the ancient world - Thor looks like a thoroughly modern hero! Here's a more traditional comic book take on an heroic Viking character for you to draw. Draw a Viking Warrior.Draw a Viking Warrior originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at ... Leonardo da Vinci Quotes on Drawing - Leonardo da Vinci is a fascinating artist, and while a few enigmatic pieces get a lot of airtime, I often think that the old master has a lot to offer the modern artist beyond these iconic works. I thought I'd take a look at where Leonardo is coming from and what he has to say on a few topics about drawing, perspective and learning to be an artist. Leonardo Quotes and DrawingsLeonardo da Vinci Quotes on Drawing originally appeared on About.com Drawing / Sketching on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 00:07:27.... Improving Your Drawing: Middle Values - An error I've noticed in many beginner (and even more experienced) artists' work lately is a gap in the tonal range. Often artists will focus on the outlines, so these will be strong, and they know they need confident darks, so they'll shade quite powerful shadows. But then things go a bit pear-shaped when they start to tackle the rest of the shading. I think in part it's a desire to get the subtleties of tone so not to be too heavy-handed, but they get stuck in the upper register. Or perhaps it's fear - once you've laid down a lot of graphite, it can be hard to go lighten up.
We also see a lot of high-key and high-contrast images in the popular media - strong lighting, heightened contrast and airbrushing give us pale, featureless photographs with dark outlines. So maybe we are used to that lack of richness through the middle values.
Try creating a Grayscale test st... Improve Your Drawing - The trouble with being stuck in a rut is that you don't always know it - you keep going over the same old ground and it's not until you're entrenched in a well-worn groove that you discover that you're repeating yourself. If you're lucky, it just means that you never get beyond being 'pretty good' and your work always has that familiar 'look' to it. If you're not, it can mean mediocrity and a slow wearing-away of creativity and enthusiasm. Here are six ways to push give your creative skills a boost and get out of the same-old. Check out the article on Ways to Better Drawing.Improve Your Drawing originally appeared on ... Pencil Shading Exercise - Shade an Egg. - Practicing shading with simple objects is a good way to develop skills quickly. Instead of thinking about a composition with many complicated textures, you can pay attention to subtle changes of tone and concentrate on handling the pencil to get the kind of shading you want. It's useful to try these exercises out with different papers and pencils - for example, as well as basic sketchbook paper, try a smooth hot-pressed paper as well as something with a rougher surface, laid paper or handmade. Try using only a 6b, and also try using some harder pencils. Be sure to check out Introduction to Pencil Shading for tips on different ways to shade with pencil, then try the ... Copyright © 2012, Internet Marketing. All Rights Reserved. |