BOOKS

I have some classic books to upload soon, including a magic treatise on how to paint by John Collier, brilliant English painter, published in 1910. Worth waiting for!
My theory is that the older the art instruction book (up to a certain point), the more likely you are to find the lost secrets that
not many living artists can (or will) tell you. In the last 50 years especially there has been all sorts of reasons why art schools (especially Government/ University run) have stopped teaching this tradition.
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IS PRICELESS, IT HAS LASTED 5000 YEARS, AND IT IS IN DANGER.
So lets you and me do something to save it yes? YES!!

THE CLASSICS

Heres a list of in-print must-have books for any keen student of classical figure drawing.

DRAWING LESSONS FROM THE GREAT MASTERS
Robert Beverley Hale
Watson and Guptill Publishers
ISBN 0 8230 1400 2

MASTER CLASS IN FIGURE DRAWING
Robert Beverley Hale
Watson and Guptill Publishers

ARTISTIC ANATOMY
RB Hale and Paul Richer
Watson and Guptill Publishers

BRIDGEMANS COMPLETE GUIDE TO DRAWING FROM LIFE
George B Bridgeman
Wings Books, New York
ISBN 0 517 25546 4

Heres a couple of brilliant books for those who want to draw great figures from their imaginations
(the highest ideal for the classical artist), especially for the action comic book artist.

DRAWING COMICS THE MARVEL WAY
John Buscema and Stan Lee
Simon & Schuster, Inc
ISBN 0 671 22548 0

DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING (and all his other books in the series)
Burne Hogarth
Watson and Guptill
ISBN 0 8230 1575 0

Out of Print Books worth fighting for (search the net)

FIGURE DRAWING FOR ALL ITS WORTH
Andrew Loomis
USA c 1940's
(I have a copy, it is available online at a couple of places in huge PDF format, Good if you have Broadband!)

PAINTING LESSONS FROM THE GREAT MASTERS
Lester Hereward Cooke
Watson and Guptill (shows up at Amazon and others, search rare books online)