Studio Seeing: A Practical Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Perception - Softcover

Torlen, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789387892 ISBN 13: 9781789387896

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2023

Synopsis

Opens with several first-person anecdotes about the author’s life as a practicing artist and a discussion of the intellectual lineage of his vision-based pedagogy. Many more anecdotes from the author’s teaching appear in most chapters.

The author discusses perception as it benefits the artist in the studio. Perceptual laws govern both our experience of seeing and the artist’s process of creating. The book presents a proven process developed by the author over many decades of teaching and studio practice that the artist can apply to their own painting/drawing and/or teaching. The painting and drawing principles in the book are essential and yet not generally taught or understood. They will benefit anyone learning how to draw/paint or advance their practice. The book will also help practitioners to make rapid progress and to avoid clichéd, overused solutions. It also offers insights and discussions of interest to art lovers and “Sunday painters.” It is for everyone who enjoys viewing and thinking about art.

Integrated into the text are more than one hundred images―works of art by well-known historical and contemporary artists and students, photographs, and diagrams―to reinforce the concepts presented. A recap section ends each chapter, followed by an exercise, or group of related exercises, to encourage and guide the practitioner in immediate application of the concepts.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Torlen is a visual artist, author, and Professor Emeritus of the School of Art+Design, Purchase College, State University of New York, where he taught painting and drawing, and received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He earned his BFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and his MFA at The Ohio State University.

Although known for his seascapes of Maine, he also has a body of semi-abstract work about family, cancer, love, and death. Torlen maintains a studio and lives in Westbrook, Maine, with his wife, author and educator, Eleanor Phillips Brackbill.

For more information:
www.michaeltorlen.com
www.michaeltorlenauthor.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789387892
• ISBN 13: 9781789387896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276