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| The Springfield Museum of Art |
| This site has some useful information on basic drawing techniques such as how to draw the human body in proportion; heads, hands, feet, etc. The site is http://www.webmaster-ohio-usa.com/drawing/ |
| ppframe.htm. Click on the link to the right. |
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| This site provides information on basic drawing and painting techniques, especially perspective and shading. The URL is http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard |
| To go there just click on the link to the right. |
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| Drawing Ships |
| Although this site concentrates on the techniques for drawing sailing ships, it does contain some basic perspective drawings that would be useful in adding a rowboat to a sketch as is shown above. The site URL is http://angelfire.com/ |
| ar/rogerart/seven.html. Just click on the link to the right. |
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| Power, Illusion, and the Technology of Perspective in the Renaissance. |
| Earliest prehistoric man exhibited, in his cave paintings in France and Spain, some understanding of perspective. The Egyptian tomb paintings had little perspective qualities, and even Greek and Roman art still lacked true perspective. It wasn't until the Italian Renaissance that perspective was truly mastered. This site shows how these early pioneers used perspective in their architecture and in their art. This site at Stanford University is at http://www.stanford.edu/group/STS/techne5.shtml |
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| Swarthmore College Perspective Drawing |
| This site does an excellent job of presenting the techniques of single-point and two-point perspective drawing. This site is the result of two workshops conducted at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1995 and 1998. The site URL is http://mathforum.org/sum95/ math_and/perspective/perspect.html. Just click |
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| Swarthmore College "Manipulating the Vanishing Point." |
| I have listed this Swarthmore College link from the site above separately because it allows you a unique chance to move the vanishing points in a two-point perspective sketch to see how the drawing changes. The link URL is http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/ participants/sanders/Try/Persp.gsp.html. Just |
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| This is really a fine site that teaches skills in many areas of art from digital painting as shown on the left to oil painting. The site takes you through step by step to create the landscape at the left. It also has information on perspective, portraits and even drawing ships as you can see from the "Drawing Ships" section below taken from this site. The site is http://angelfire.com/ar/rogerart/ index.html. To go to the site just click on |
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| Drawing Exercises |
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| The music is "Carolina in my Mind" by James Taylor. |
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