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The Art of Perspective
by Yves Leblanc

Publisher: New Holland
Edition: Hardback

ISBN 13: 9781847738158

Perspective is the art of understanding and reproducing the space surrounding us - an attempt to 'flatten' what is seen on a sheet of paper. It links graphic combinations to explain space just as language links words to explain thought. It puts at stake the artist's deductive ability to capture a place, a direction or the way a surface behaves. This clear and richly illustrated book with more than 400 diagrams introduces artists, graphic designers and architects to the principles of perspective so that they can create their own illusion of reality.

Price: £14.99

The Art of Perspective
by Phil Metzger

Publisher North Light
Edition Paperback

The ultimate guide for artists in every medium.Every artist needs to know how to create the illusion of depth and distance.Packed with specific tips and instruction for several different mediums including acrylic, oil, watercolor and graphite.Teaches essential perspective techniques through easy step-by-step demonstrations and exercises.Starts simple and moves on to complex scenes and challenges such as stairways, curves, and non-rectangular objects.
Price: £14.99

The Complete Guide to Perspective
by John Raynes

Publisher Batsford
Edition Paperback

The Complete Guide to Perspective strips this daunting subject back to its simplest principles and shows how, once these have been grasped, the other, apparently more complex rules simply build on the basic concept.The principles of perspective are developed in a series of step-by-step projects, from one-, two- and three-point perspective, to different viewpoints and multi-view perspective.The reader is guided with the help of line diagrams, grids and photographs with perspective lines superimposed. The projects develop from the basics to fully realized drawings. A wide range of subjects is explored in a variety of media and styles. This book is a must for all artists, illustrators and architects.
Price: £12.99

Perspective
by William F

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Perspective
by Ray Campbell Smith

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Ray Campbell Smith presents an easy-to-follow guide which looks at basic perspective, shadows, reflections, warm and cool colours and more.
Price: £6.99

The Artist's Guide to Perspective
by Janet Shearer

Publisher New Holland
Edition Paperback

This book demystifies perspective and explains it in a clear, accessible way. Discover the basic principles, then build on them, progressing through picture planes, vanishing points, aerial perspective and foreshortening, culminating in how to produce a projection for a large piece of work.
Price: £8.99

Perspective - a guide for artists, architects and designers
by Gwen White

Publisher Batsford
Edition Paperback

A book on some of the more complicated aspects of perspective, clearly explained and illustrated – ideal for the artist, architect, designer and even town planner. In this classic textbook, Gwen White gives detailed explanations combined with simple diagrams that make complex ideas easy to understand. The concepts covered include parallel perspective, angular perspective, oblique perspective, shadows, the cone of rays, and reflections. A special feature of the book are the ‘lift-up pages’, which have a perspective drawing on one side and the corresponding construction lines on the other. The two can be seen simultaneously by holding the page towards the light. The book, and these pages in particular, are meant to encourage the reader to picture everything in three dimensions.
Price: £10.99

Composition in Landscape and Still Life
by Ernest W Watson

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Price: £13.99

Mastering Composition
by Ian Roberts

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Mixed Media

All elements of composition are covered. Readers will learn how to use a viewfinder to determine cropping and framing to create the best relationship of value masses. They will also learn to analyse paintings in terms of colour shapes of value, hue and intensity (also colour temperature) - the elements that make a painting. Roberts uses master works as examples to show how the eye moves through a painting. He will include before/after examples to illustrate how using the rules for good composition can improve paintings. Readers will learn how to create compositionally successful paintings through five demonstrations.
Price: £18.99

Achieving Depth & Distance
by Kitty Gorrell

Publisher North Light
Edition Paperback

Realism in landscape painting is the ultimate goal of many fine artists and leisure-time painters, and this book shows how to achieve that goal by using the right colours, values and textures to express near, middle and great distance. Included are demonstrations for all seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn, thus addressing how depth of field in the landscape changes during each time of year.
Price: £14.99

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