"The Great courses, Topic: Better Living ; Subtopic: Arts & Leisure"--Cover. "Course no. 7770"--Disc labels. 36 lectures lasting 30 minutes each. Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format.
Physical Description
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Disc 1. An introduction to drawing ; Drawing materials for line ; Drawing fundamentals and first exercises ; Line and shape: line and aggregate shape ; Line and shape: volume and figure-ground ; Line and shape: ositive and negative shape
Disc 2. Composition: the format and its armature ; Composition: ow artists compose ; Line and shape: line attributes and gesture ; Composition: shape and advanced strategies ; Proportion: Alberti's Velo ; Proportion: accurate proportion and measure
Disc 3. Creating volume and illusionistic space ; Six complex drawing projects ; Linear perspective: introduction ; Linear perspective: the quad ; Linear perspective: the gridded room ; Linnear perspective: ellipses and pattern
Disc 4. Linnear perspective: advanced topics ; Value: how artists use value ; Value: drawing materials for value ; Value: black and white and a value scale ; Value: eight complex drawing projects ; Value: side light and cast shadow
Disc 5. Value: oblique light and cast shadow ; Texture: mark making and optical value ; Texture: how artists use texture ; Color: color theory and color and light ; Color: how artists use color ; Color: color drawing projects
Disc 6. The figure: a canon of proportions ; The figure: the head, hands, and feet ; The figure: artistic anatomy ; The figure: drawing projects ; Advanced concepts: pictorial space ; Advanced drawing projects.