Animal Painting and Anatomy (Dover Anatomy for Artists) - Softcover

Calderon, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486225232 ISBN 13: 9780486225234

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2003

Synopsis

A complete, inexpensive, at-home course in animal painting and anatomy, this volume combines useful information on important anatomical features with directions on how to handle subjects and express their forms and postures. Topics include drawing from life, movement, and composition, plus a detailed discussion of animal anatomy. More than 200 illustrations.

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From the Back Cover:

Drawing is "the very essence of all pictorial art," and this book approaches the challenging art of animal painting from the point of view of accurate representation of animal subjects on canvas. Combining useful information on important anatomical features with direction on how to handle the subjects and how to express their forms and postures, the author has produced a complete, inexpensive, at-home course in animal painting and anatomy.
All aspects of animal drawing and painting are covered: drawing from life; anatomy in relation to drawing (not surgical anatomy, but a precise knowledge of the visible structure and movements of animals); characteristic movements of animals and suggestions on how to capture them in your picture; composition (design, restraint, rhythm, balance of light and shade, relative scale of animals and landscape, foregrounds); painting and color. 36 illustrations, mostly sketches by the author, depict horses, pigs, cows, dogs, and other animals in various life positions and movements. A long, detailed discussion of the anatomy of animals completes the book. Here Mr. Calderon describes all the structures of animals that are of significance to the artist: the vertebral skeleton, the bones and muscles of the head, the muscles of the vertebral skeleton, the fore-limb and its muscles, the muscles attaching the shoulder blade to the trunk, and the bones and muscles of the hind limb. 208 drawings accompany these discussions and show you how anatomy is related to surface contours and techniques of shading.
Unabridged, unaltered republication of the 1936 edition.

Synopsis:

Offers pointers on composition, perspective, and the depiction of movement in drawings and paintings and describes the structures of animals important to the artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486225232
• ISBN 13: 9780486225234
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352