Basic Drawing: The Immortals of Art
LEARN HOW TO DRAW IN YOUR OWN HOME
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POSSESS AN EXCELLENT TOOL FOR TEACHING ART.
"Basic Drawing: The Immortals of Art" consists of the first 10 lessons Mary Muller teaches her classes in her studio. These assignments have developed over the past 40 years and have been proven a sound basis for developing successful portrait, landscape and still life artists. Each of the ten lessons consists of 1) a logical explanation; 2) a demonstration by Mary, and; 3) an opportunity for each student to execute the lesson.
Muller states, "If you master the shapes and their relationships, you can draw anything you can see."
Lynn Ethington states, "Mary's method of instruction breaks down skills into meaningful opportunities... Her approach has enabled me as a school art teacher to reinforce and expand my skill set, but her lessons are accessible to a beginner as well."
Sus Sweitzer states, "... I had learned many techniques prior to meeting Mary Muller and following her approach, but my paintings always lacked something. Learning her method has given me a foundation that has improved my art immensely. I now use this method in teaching my own classes."
Basic Drawing Companion Handbook available for additional $15
Fifty Two : Landscape Series Book
FIFTY TWO began in September 2009 as an exercise in discipline, painting one 7 x 7 image from the midwestern landscape each week showing nature and man working together. A red ground was chosen for the "soft pastel" pieces because I wanted to see the varied reactions of the colors of the sky, fields and particularly ditches on this warm background. When I found a design I liked giving me a lot of sky, the clouds usually made interesting angles and offered openings for light to come through them. Sometimes they were dark and powerful, adding a sense of intensity to the feeling of the piece. Sometimes there were none at all! The roads not only gave direction to the designs, but they have always been psychologically important to me, suggesting the approaching opportunities of life that will be met as they are journeyed into the distance. When the paintings were hung in a show at the Heritage Gallery in Des Moines in November 2010, I was most surprised by how the images complimented each other.
The group needed to stay together. Thus my book "FIFTY TWO"
(The book marks included in the book are printed on the scraps left over from the landscapes.)
- Mary Muller
