Light for the Artist (Dover Art Instruction)

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Intermediate and advanced art students receive a broad vocabulary of effects with this in-depth study of light. The guide offers detailed descriptions that start with the fundamentals — the direction of light, reflections, and shadows — and advance to studies of light in natural and manipulated situations. Examinations of subtler light effects include foreshortening, field effects, more than one light sources, colored light, depicting the sunshine source, and the behavior of light on shiny surfaces.
Lavishly illustrated with diagrams and paintings, this volume applies its principles to figure, still life, and landscape paintings. Writer Ted Seth Jacobs stresses the significance of comparing real-life vision to the canvas, since no system of rules can substitute for close and careful statement. Jacobs points out common errors, suggests light effects that artists will have to bear in mind, and discusses how preconceptions may also be put aside in an effort to see the world more clearly.

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