Dynamic light and shade : [how to render and invent light and shade - the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting]

Mastery of light and shade – rendered with accuracy and expressive power – is the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting. Here is the first book on this essential subject, the product of years of study by one of the world's great teachers of drawing and an artist of international renown, Burne Hogarth, author of four other art instruction classics on drawing. Hogarth begins with the simplest kind of light and shade, showing how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form and space. He then shows how the silhouette is transformed into three dimensions with the addition of minimal light – the highlight. Following these introductory chapters, the author devotes a separate chapter to each of the five basic categories of light and shade: single–source light; double-source light; flat, diffused light; moonlight; and sculptural light. In these chapters Hogarth illustrates the effects of these different kinds of light on a variety of subjects - faces, figures, landscapes, still lifes – and examines both natural and artificial light sources. Moving on to more complex lighting effects, Hogarth explains spatial light – how light and shade can create a sense of "near and far": environmental light – the effects of weather, time of day, and the changing of seasons; textural light – how light reveals the surface qualities of forms that range from rough stone to silk and satin draperies; transparent light – the effects of light passing through transparent materials like glass and water, and translucent substances like moving water or sail-cloth; fragmentation light – the disrupted light we see in such subjects as fire, rain, and flying snow; radiant light – the intense light we see when we look into the light source itself, which may range from the sun to a candle flame; and finally the various kinds of expressive light invented by the artist – such as the symbolic and mystic light of religious art, or the patterns of light and shade that convey a mood or a psychological state. Burne Hogarth illustrates every effect of light and shade with brilliant drawings in pencil, charcoal, carbon, pen and ink, and brush and ink, encouraging the reader to experiment with diverse drawing media. The first book on this fundamental aspect of art technique, Dynamic Light and Shade is an essential volume for everyone who draws and paints. Burne Hogarth is one of the founders of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he served as Coordinator of Curriculum, Design, and Art History. His famed lecture demonstrations of anatomy and drawing provided the material for Dynamic Anatomy, Drawing the Human Head, Dynamic Figure Drawing, Drawing Dynamic Hands, and Dynamic Light and Shade. The author received his education and art background in Chicago, where he started a diversified professional career that embraces some forty years of experience in art education, fine art, illustration, advertising, and newspaper art. He achieved worldwide recognition with his illustrations for the Sunday newspaper feature "Tarzan" and has since published Tarzan of the Apes and Jungle Tales of Tarzan in book form: His cartoons, drawings, prints, and paintings have been exhibited at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs of the Louvre in Paris. A past president of the National Cartoonists Society and member of the Board of Governors, Hogarth was awarded the N.C.S. silver plaque for best in illustration and advertising in 1974, 1975, and 1976. He was also named artist of the year in 1975 at the Pavilion of Humor in Montreal, Canada. In 1986 he received the lifetime Caran D'Ache Award in Lucca, Italy and in 1988 was awarded the Lauriers d'Or (Golden Laurels) by the C.E.S.A.R. Art Society in Paris. In May 1989 Hogarth was awarded the Premio Especial by the 7th International Salon of Humor in Barcelona. Burne Hogarth teaches analytical figure drawing at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and makes his home in Los Angeles. WATSON-GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS 1515 Broadway New York, NY 10036 160 pages. 8¼ × 11. 224 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cover design by Bob Fillie, Graphiti Graphics