Learning to Draw and Paint with Gertrude

by Gertrude L. Clayton

118 pages / Paperback; e-book / ISBN: 978-65-979908-6-3

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Gertrude L. Clayton is an excellent guide to the study of drawing and painting. Her instructions are clear, direct, and remarkably practical, leading the student step by step through the essential elements of visual composition. With a keen understanding of composition, perspective, line, form, color, and landscape, Clayton shows not only how to observe and render each, but how to bring them together. Rather than relying on complicated theory, Clayton teaches through careful observation and purposeful practice. Her exercises encourage the eye to see, the hand to respond, and the student to make deliberate choices in arranging forms and colors. Learning to Draw and Paint with Gertrude is both a practical course and a thoughtful introduction to the principles of visual design—a book to study, practice from, and return to again and again.