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Barron's Art Handbooks: Vegetation - Book Review
Arts & Activities, June, 2003 by Jerome J. Housman
(2001; $9.95). Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 250 Wireless Blvd., Hauppauge, NY 11788.
This is a book, small in size, that can serve as a handy resource for highschool students seeking introductory information about rendering images of vegetation. A wide range of media is referenced: drawing materials, oil, watercolor, gouache, and pen and ink. The formal elements of composition, color, light and distance are discussed. There is also fleeting and succinct discussions and demonstrations of techniques: creating texture highlights; developing tonal values; and the use of specific tools such as pencils, markers, brushes, palette knife, and others. There are small-sized reproductions of works by major artists: Gauguin, Renoir, van Gogh, Rousseau, Hopper, Monet and others.
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Overall, this is a "user-friendly" publication that will provide "beginning answers" to how-to-do-it questions for students interested in doing artwork about vegetation.--J.J.H. For information about this publication, circle No. 400 on the Reader Service Card.
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