The Elements of Drawing

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**The Elements of Drawing**

Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies ‘The Elements of Drawing’, a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/

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9. Creativity Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 8. Invention!

8. Field Notes Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.

7. With Colour Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.

6. Measured Drawing Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.

5. Making a Livelier Drawing Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.

4. Toned Paper Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.

3. The Edge of the Pencil Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.

2. The Tip of the Pencil Mar 24, 2011

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Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.

1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing Mar 24, 2011

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Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.

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