Light and Shade With Chapters on Charcoal, Pencil, and Brush Drawing: a Manual for Teachers and Students

by Anson K. Cross (Creator)

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Genres: Art, Drawing

196 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2010

About the author

Anson Kent Cross (Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston, 1883) was an art instructor and member of the Copley Society. Known particularly for his landscapes, he also held 23 patents on a rotary snowplow.

Reviews

[Cassandra]

Seems detailed and boring until you need it and then it's very helpful to make sense of what you see.

[Roberto]

Interesting book; however, I wasn’t compelled to seat down and read it for long periods of time. The author provides instructions of techniques, media, and application. He also emphasizes the mastering of drawing skills before moving on to non representational drawing. I like the fact that it criticizes drawing methods in which contour and shading using lines, blocking, etc. are taught independently from painting, thus hindering the artists’ appreciation of value, volume, shapes, and specially light and shadow, resulting in mechanical, flat, inadequate drawings. I wish 25”x30” sheets of charcoal paper were still 7¢ a sheet, clearly outdated, but I don’t believe less relevant.