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Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills
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Get a realisitic guide to producing construction documents that clearly communicate the interior space of new construction, remodeling, or installation projects with
Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors. This highly visual book:
- includes such details as furniture, finishes, lighting, and others.
- features authors drawings as well as those from practicing professionals.
- covers drafting fundamentals and conventions; drawing types, plans, and schedules; and computer-aided design.
- addresses graphic language as a communication tool.
- details the process of creating construction documents, the use of computers, and various reproduction systems and standards.
- includes examples of both residential and commercial interiors.
- is an essential reference for NCIDQ examination.
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Excellent Reference Book.......2005-06-22
I have many years of architectural drafting experience. Although this book says "Basic Skills" on the cover, it is much more than basic. It's an excellent reference book, covering everything that is needed for interior design drafting: from line weights to scale, dimensioning, plans, elevations, sections, checklists, furniture and finish schedules, contract documents, and the list goes on. I highly recommend this book for students of interior design and practising designers alike.
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Not impressed..........2007-06-08
I purchased this book because of all the great reviews it received. I was not impressed. Everything was way too simplistic. If you're an intermediate or professional painter, you will not learn anything from this book that you don't already know.
REAL help for a struggling painter.......2007-05-12
AWESOME book packed to the full with inspiring paintings & photos, really practical tips for the would be painter, and help over all those overwhelming and sometimes insurmountable difficulties confronting the aspirant oil painter. Replaces mystery with method. I'm really thrilled to have discovered Kevin Macpherson's approach to painting "plein air" and am already seeing the fruits of applying it.
Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light & Color.......2007-01-28
Good reference book; should be in all artists library.
Excellent Advice and Technique.......2007-01-13
I used to use a pallete of 10 colors but took the author's advice and tried using 3 plus white. Within one day I learned I can mix most colors. The important thing is the pure simplicity and fantastic range of colorful grays you'll generate while mixing. Try it. Later, he says to add a green and gradually others.
His advice on simplifying shapes is wise. The eye averages images. Your intellect wants to paint detail everywhere but that's not what the eye actually sees. To create realistic scenes it's necessary to see color correctly and avoid the urge to sketch with paint. Viewed closely, great paintings often show blotches of color and heavy brush strokes but viewed as a whole it all works together and conveys harmony and an emotional pull.
As for materials, I agree with the author's selection of hardboard-like supports. The Mona Lisa is painted on board and I'm not about to criticise DaVinci.
North Light Books publishes many good painting guides and this volume is one of the best.
Great for the Beginner.......2006-12-04
I took an art class at the museum and our teacher had this book, she let us practice using this book. It is time consuming, but worth it! I've never painted using this technique before and I was suprised at how good I did. It's well worth buying and adding to your library!
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Roland Roycraft's watercolor paintings are highly regarded for their sparkling, atmospheric qualities. Artists can bring this glowing quality to their own work by experimenting with the masking and paint pouring techniques that make his art unique. They'll see first-hand how to capture the glinting light of snow, the glow of a sunset or the sparkle of sunlight on water.
Roycraft's pouring technique is perfect for capturing subtle color variations found in foliage, skies or water. And because pouring causes the color to tint rather than cover the paper, the colors remain brilliant--even when as ten to fifteen layers have been applied. Watercolor artists will be delighted with how his masking techniques allow for an even greater freedom in their paintings.
* More than 65,000 copies of the hardcover edition sold
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Light up your paintings big time.......2001-12-24
Wow! Where was THIS watercolor book hiding? The techniques Roland Roycraft shares here are seemingly easy; splashing or flowing paint onto paper, masking and more. He also gives some very good hints for composition with clear details. Also value sketches (black and white, showing the density of darks and lights. This is a valuable technique for painters.)
I may not choose to imitate Roycraft's style, but I sure will be incorporating these techniques into my next paintings. If you want to improve your watercolor, I can't recommend this book and his other book on nature enough. They are just great.
Great Atmospheric Paintings.......1998-10-27
This is a good book for seeing what effective use of masking can do for a painting. Mr. Roycraft's use of masking is an integral (if not THE prime) technique for creating the numerous paintings demonstrated in this book. The other technique he uses is pouring the watercolors onto the surface rather than painting most of it with a brush.
This is not a painting method for anyone not willing or able to know precisely all the places to mask. The sparkling waves of an ocean in one of his paintings must have taken quite some time to mask and most likely needed a detailed pencil sketch beforehand. While the pouring is imprecise the masking is not.
The book has 1 chapter that gives a step-by-step demonstration of his pouring method. One can tell from some paintings produced that this can be a time-consuming method of producing watercolor paintings if the subject matter is intricate or detailed although the results are breathtaking.
I would like to see more demonstrations from Mr. Roycraft and perhaps more details about the masking as part of the process. Statements such as "I masked only the light areas before beginning the painting. This is negative painting in reverse and makes a beautiful abstract pattern." show the thought that guides the final results.
Most of the book shows paintings in a semi-finished state with the final result and some comments on the process and thoughts in creating it. I liked this book very much and would recommend it to any watermedia painter because it helps thinking in terms of positive and negative shapes and light. It also introduces a unique way of painting with watercolors which I suspect would work with fluid acrylics as well.
wonderful atomshere, superior technique.......1998-10-16
The book amazes me a lot. I particularly like the effect of the pouring. It seems difficult to learn, how to control the color flowing smoothly across the desired area? Is it time-consuming to prepare the masking(questions for Mr. Roland Rycraft) I would like to know some details of the procedure.
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Reflections on a Pond: A Visual Journal
Kevin D. MacPherson
Manufacturer: Studio Escondido Books
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"This is my country." Mariana Yampolsky knew it the moment she opened her window and saw a bougainvillea blooming against a white wall on her first morning in Mexico City in 1944. Her empathy for the Mexican people and their land has guided her work for more than fifty years, finding expression in books of dramatic black-and-white photographs ranging from her early
La casa en la tierra and
La casa que canta to
The Traditional Architecture of Mexico.
The Edge of Time presents a retrospective of Yampolsky's photographic work since 1960. Reflecting her lifelong concerns, the images capture rural Mexico and its people with respect and infinite care. They function as works of art and as documents of a moment in Mexico's history when lifeways that have endured for centuries face the onslaught of modernization.
Elena Poniatowska has been Yampolsky's friend for many years and, in the foreword, she describes Yampolsky's method of working and includes many quotes from the photographer herself. Sandra Berler provides an overview of Yampolsky's life and the range of her work. Francisco Reyes Palma concludes the text with an exploration of Yampolsky's photographic aesthetic.
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Book design award winner.......2004-04-04
This book won a book design award by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) in 1999 in the trade book illustrated category. Book designer: Heidi Haeuser; Publisher: University of Texas Press.
Black and white photographs of people and customs of Mexico........1998-09-20
Superb black and white photographs by a premier photographer, displaying the lives of ordinary people and the native customs of various parts of Mexico. A real bargain at the price.
Extraordinary photographs.......1998-07-03
This book contains some of the most extraordinary photographs taken in Mexico. The camera travels through the country capturing images of people, their art, and their environment.
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Celebrity has its benefits... and its costs. Due to his status as the world's most unusual travel writer - being a thousand pounds of walking, talking rock will do that - Concrete is approached by a group of radical eco-warriors to see firsthand and write about their efforts to save old-growth forest. What begins as a lark soon turns into a harrowing struggle, and Concrete must decide whether to dispassionately observe or to join these people who would risk anything, even life itself, to save the planet. Called "the best comic being published by anyone, anywhere," Paul Chadwick's critically acclaimed Concrete is at once rousing fantasy and grounded reality, as thought-provoking and challenging as it is entertaining. Think Like a Mountain collects the 1996 Parents' Choice Award winning series along with bonus short stories, some collected here for the first time.
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Concrete : Think Like a Mountain
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It seemed so harmless at first. Concrete was just going to observe a group of Earth First!ers -- to see firsthand what they were all about and to write about their efforts to save an old-growth forest. But that was before the group talked Concrete into illegally entering Canada, and before they "monkey-wrenched" some logging equipment, and before the owners of that equipment unexpectedly showed up. Now Concrete has to decide why he's really here -- to observe these people, who would risk lives to save the planet or to join in their crusade. Award-winning writer-artist Paul Chadwick delivers his most thoughtful and compelling work to date. This collected six-issue series explores the history of Earth First! and the moral questions it raises in a heady mix of suspense, humor, sexual tension, and painless doses of natural history.
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It's Not Easy Being Green.......2001-02-22
Comic book character Ron Lithgow was hiking in the mountains one day when he was abducted by extraterrestrials who, before he escaped their clutches, forcibly removed his brain and deposited it in the incredibly strong and nigh invulnerable stone body of a 1,200 pound manlike monolith. Now transformed into the gentle giant called Concrete, he has essentially been exiled from the animal kingdom. In his ongoing series of periodic projects from Dark Horse Comics, such as "Concrete Celebrates Earth Day 1990," creator Paul Chadwick has often used this unique being to promote a "green" lifestyle.
A soft-spoken travelogue writer rather than a superhero, in "Think Like a Mountain" (originally released in 1996 as a six-issue mini-series), Concrete goes where no mineral man has gone before. He accompanies a group of Earth First! activists to Washington state so he can record their attempt to save an old growth forest from the mechanized blades of a huge lumber company. Beautifully, even lovingly rendered in words and pictures by Paul (and colored by his wife), this story follows Concrete's evolution from a reluctant supporter of environmental extremism to an uncompromising eco-warrior. The story's engaging, character driven plot delivers fascinating facts about nature, valuable instruction on the ethics and tactics of civil disobedience, and frightening encounters with such "villains" as industrial waste and global human overpopulation (and yes, both the original series and the trade paperback were printed on recycled paper).
This story's synthesis of drawings, colors and words demonstrates that the unique medium of graphic literature can convey important messages with an eloquence that pictures or prose alone could not achieve. Some of the scenes that left the most profound impressions on me were the verbal and visual view of Washington's ravaged landscape seen from 20,000 feet above; Concrete's envisioning of a gargantuan composite human monstrosity devouring and defiling the planet; and the "last stand" of a felled old growth giant rising to the defense of an Earth First!er as he runs from authorities across a clear cut wasteland. The climax, which relied on the immediacy of images for its impact-both on the reader and the world in which Concrete lives-brought about a resolution that was as optimistic as it could be without totally losing its grounding in reality (forgetting, for the moment, that story revolves around a living rock man). Finally, it was extremely gratifying to see that this bittersweet outcome only strengthened Concrete's resolve to defend Mother Earth. Overall, I cannot think of any other work that better exemplifies the legitimacy and power of graphic literature as an art form.
Comic book storytelling in its top form........1999-06-06
A thought-provoking look at life, and the value of nature's preservation, that makes you stop and think about the world around us. Think Like a Mountain asks an important question: is stepping over the line of the law worth it if the cause is good? This, among other things, is a problem that Concrete must come face to face with over the course of the story. The art complements the writing perfectly; both are exceptional throughout. Concrete has come to be a symbol of comics at their best, raising the bar with each installment. I cannot give a higher reccomendation for this wonderful book, it's star (Concrete), and its creator- the one and only Paul Chadwick.
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Concrete : Think Like a Mountain Chapter One of Six ,Green Fire
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comic in the story and in the "author's forum" discusses the direct action tactics of earth first! thequote on back cover is from 1 of the founders of earth first! Backup feature called "The Cave"
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Concrete : Think Like a Mountain,Chapter Five of Six,Nightwork
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six page discussion of comic and earth first! in "The Author's Forum" and back-up feature "The Arm".
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Six pages of discusion of comic and earth first! in "The Author's Forum" and a back-up story,"The Wish"
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Concrete: Think Like a Mountain,Chapter Three of Six,Arms and Boxes
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6 page discussion of story and earth first! and back-up story "Earth's Birthday"
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Concrete:Think Like a Mountain Chapter Two ,Hidden Graveyard
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5 pages of discussion about the comic and earth first! in the"author's forum".Back-up feature "The Bore"
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