Title: Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice Purchase Item Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $15.88
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Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Watson-Guptill Beautiful Book
I had to buy this for my Life drawing class, but I'm not going to sell it back to my school. This book is great. Though it is a bit repetitive, it helps break down drawing skills. After reading this book, I drew a portrait that sold for over $100. It also has some beautiful pictures in it, so now my mother has stolen it, to have on her coffee table....
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Watson-Guptill a masterpiece
After working with Juliette in her Atelier and practicing these exercises I've discovered things I never expected to learn. Her methods are priceless tools. Whatever you might glean from this wonderful book will most certainly serve you. She is an excellent painter, writer and teacher.
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Watson-Guptill Beautiful drawing
This comprehensive manual displays a appreciation of the human form and explainns the most important aspects of figure drawings executed in a classic timeless style.
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Watson-Guptill Better than most darwing books
First off I'd like to say that this book will prove to be very helpful for any artist, ranging from a beginner to a professional and will show you new ways to approach drawing. However if you have studied classical drawing this will prove to be a bit of a let down. I have studied under one of Juliette's instructors and most of her lessons in the back of the book were actually derived from his his. There is one thing however I don't agree with in this book but that wouldn't discourage me from recommending it to others. The problem is that I don't like the way she shows how to draw the casts, its more of an outline that you then go through and work with value rather than working with a line drawing then introducing value. I'm not very found of this technique, but the drawings are very good and there are tons of useful information and great introductory lessons in the back of the book (though there could be more). I would also recommend studying George Bridgman, Gottfried Bammes, Joseph Sheppard, and Robert B. Hale for anatomy and designing the human figure.
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Watson-Guptill Classical Drawing Atelier
At 144 pages, over one-third of which are drawing examples and with wide margins around the text, this is a slim book that covers the past 600 years of atelier philosophy. Or to say it another way, Aristides narrows it down to a nutshell. Covering briefly a variety of ideas (i.e., art history, art theory, art reference, as well as how-to), each chapter could be expanded to become a book of its own. The real questions are: Do you want to buy this book? Will you refer to it 100 times over the year? Will you be inspired? Will you take "anything" away with you after you have read the book? The answer will depend on your current perceptions and where you are and where you are going as an artist. If you are interested in an overview of atelier philosophy, this would be a good book to begin with.
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Watson-Guptill Book Description
An atelier program between the covers of a book * Serious techniques for the serious art student * Study the work of the Old Masters and today’s top realist artists * In the tradition of Watson-Guptill’s classic Drawing Lessons from the Old Masters Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time--and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Students begin by copying masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as their skills develop. Classical Drawing Atelier is an atelier in a book--and the master is Juliette Aristides, a classically trained artist. On every page, Aristides uses the works of works of Old Masters and today’s most respected realist artists to demonstrate and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting, taking students step by step through the learning curve yet allowing them to work at their own pace. Unique and inspiring, Classical Drawing Atelier is a serious art course for serious art students.

Watson’s Life Coming to an End, Soon Dan Wood: “There’s been some discussion on the Watson Users’ email discussion group about the future of Watson and where Sun is going. I am sad to say that it looks like Sun doesn’t seem to be focussing on getting the port of Watson released any time soon.” This is sad: Watson is cool. But we’re looking forward to hearing what Dan is working on next. Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:20:45 GMT

Spring 1.3 UserCreations Spring 1.3 includes new features: canvas-to-canvas trading, deeper integration with Watson, and more. Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:05:11 GMT

Beyond the Browser Bundle Just FYI: the Beyond the Browser Bundle runs through tomorrow. It includes NetNewsWire, Spring, and Watson for $68 (USD), 25% off. All three are award-winning applications: NetNewsWire and Spring won in the recent O’Reilly Mac OS X Innovators contest, and Watson won an Apple Design Award in 2002 as Most Innovative Mac OS X Product. Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:48:19 GMT

Karelia Software’s Cocoa Open Source Karelia Software posted “a random collection of useful bits of Cocoa, as found in Watson and in other sundry Karelia applications and testbeds.” We already use CURLHandle, also from Karelia Software, in NetNewsWire. Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:52:18 GMT

Beyond the Browser Bundle We’ve gotten together with Karelia Software and UserCreations to offer a bundle of NetNewsWire, Spring, and Watson. You can get all three for $68 (USD), 25% off. The offer is good through April. Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:05:44 GMT

Karelia weblog Watson developer Karelia Software now has a weblog. And an RSS feed, too. Wed, 02 Apr 2003 21:13:13 GMT

Watson Developer on Sherlock Plug-ins Karelia Software, which recently released Watson 1.6, on the Sherlock 3 plug-in architecture: “We’ve taken a look at Sherlock 3’s released plug-in architecture, and it’s quite a bit different from Watson’s. Although some developers are sure to prefer Sherlock’s approach, our reaction is lukewarm at best. You can’t exactly expect us to be impartial judges, but here are some differences...” (See the sidebar on the right side of the page.) Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:10:35 GMT

Breaking into the Business: An Interview with Michael Matas O’Reilly: “He’s the graphic designer who helped Dan Wood create the great look for Watson and who’s now designing for the Omni Group, as well as creating graphics and icons for other Mac OS X software developers. Michael works exclusively in Mac OS X, and mostly in Photoshop 7. Oh, and one more thing, he’s 16 years old and a junior in high school.” Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:23:44 GMT

Interview with Watson’s Dan Wood O’Reilly interviews Dan Wood: “I had run across some small utilities that did web ‘scraping’ (extracting and reformatting useful data from HTML pages) such as monitoring eBay auctions and collecting headlines of SlashDot.org. I decided that the world needed a handy container application for these kinds of utilities, and from there the individual tool ideas started coming left and right.” Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:25:10 GMT

Watson Adds Google, Amazon Plug-ins TidBITS: “Karelia Software has released Watson 1.5.5, its utility for easily gathering information from the Web that offers more features than Apple’s otherwise-similar Sherlock 3.” Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:30:44 GMT

Watson Developer on Sherlock 3 What is the relationship between Watson and Sherlock 3? Karelia Software writes: “We’ve all but given up on any compensation from Apple, so the purpose of ‘going public’ with this answer is because we want to set the record straight.” Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:58:22 GMT

Watson development to continue, says developer MacCentral: “Dan Wood of Karelia Software, the developer of Watson, confirmed for MacCentral that he had no part in the development of Sherlock 3. Wood also confirmed that Watson is alive and well and he will continue the development of the product.” I’m glad. I don’t know if Watson will continue to be a successful product after Sherlock 3 ships. I hope so. One thing that has always bugged me is how people so often prefer the software made by their OS vendor. Bundling only works so well because people somehow seem to distrust competing apps that come from independent developers, even in the cases where those apps are better and more mature. Thu, 09 May 2002 22:26:12 GMT

A look inside Jaguar Apple: “In Jaguar, Sherlock makes it simpler to comprehend that information once you’ve found it. Now Sherlock displays search results in an interface tuned for each channel, instead of launching your Web browser.” As others, including the folks at TidBITS, have pointed out, the new Sherlock looks like a clone of Karelia’s Watson. Update 2 p.m.: Some people have suggested that Sherlock 3 actually is Watson in new clothes. It isn’t. See the comments page for this post for a note from Robb Beal clarifying that “Sherlock 3 from Apple is not Watson in any respect. Karelia LLC continues to operate as an independent software development company.” Tue, 07 May 2002 16:45:51 GMT