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THE BASICS
36 WAYS TO PICK UP A BRUSH AND START PAINTING PICTURES
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Table Of Contents
Introduction
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Lesson 1 - Contour and Gesture
Lesson 2 - Overlapping
Lesson 3 - Sight Size Drawing
Lesson 4 - Drawing a Complex Object
Lesson 5 - Drawing with Shadows
Lesson 6 - Tonal Drawing

Tone
Lesson 7 - Painting a Value Scale
Lesson 8 - Painting Blocks in Tone
Lesson 9 - Line to Tone
Lesson 10 - Square to Round
Lesson 11 - Painting a Solid Form
Lesson 12 - Patterning with Tone
Lesson 13 - Popping Your Lights
Lesson 14 - Basic Lighting Conditions
Lesson 15 - Dissipating Light
Lesson 16 - Catching Different Kinds of Light
Lesson 17 - Crest Light
Lesson 18 - Hollows, Highlights and Accents

 
Color
Lesson 19 - Color Values
Lesson 20 - Painting Blocks in Color
Lesson 21 - Reflective Color
Lesson 22 - Color Temperature
Lesson 23 - Color Intensity
Lesson 24 - Underpainting
Lesson 25 - Averaging Lights and Darks
Lesson 26 - Keying a Painting
Lesson 27 - Edges
Lesson 28 - Reflections
Lesson 29 - Color and Atmosphere
Lesson 30 - Fleshtones
Lesson 31 - Painting a Vista
Lesson 32 - Irregularity
Lesson 33 - Pushing Value Contrasts
Lesson 34 - Patterns
Lesson 35 - Painting from Photographs
Lesson 36 - The 4-A-Day Plan
Where To Go From Here?
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