Natural Inspiration By Milind Mulick

Artist Shivaji Tupe is actively working in the field of landscape painting for more than fifty years. He has travelled many a place in India in search of subjects for landscape painting. Along with a variety of subjects, he has used watercolour, oil paint, opaque watercolour, acrylics, as his mediums to express his creative urge. In addition he has worked a lot in pen and ink medium in free way. In this book you will find his thoughts about outdoor sketching in pen and ink medium, his working methods and qualities of this medium. When you will see these pen and ink works you will understand the vast creative scope offered by this challenging medium.

Pencil and paper are the most preliminary but important materials which open the creative world of drawing to artists. There are many ways to handle the pencil. In this book, artist Rahul Deshpande shows tonal drawing with pencil, focusing on outdoor landscape studies. He explains how this approach helps as a foundation for creating paintings in any medium later on. He also shares some thoughts on drawing, observation skills, composition, tonal representation and shadow patterns. Along with a variety of subjects, this book will encourage art lovers, art students and professional artists to handle pencil as a tonal medium.

Senior artist Maruti Patil, after having many awards to his credit still loves sketching. Here he shares his thoughts and working methods of sketching and drawing the human figure, a subject most budding artists  find challenging. It helps one to understand various ways of sketching like time-sketch, quick-sketch, etc. In addition, the artist shares some different ways of using pencil, pastels and bow-pen. His experience as a teacher for more than 40 years makes his advice useful for everyone who loves sketching and figure drawing.

Second part of the series - Pencil Techniques. The book gives complete information on different types of pencils such as charcoal pencil, conte pencil, glass marking, colour pencil, pastel pencil and watercolour pencil. Rahul Deshpande and Gopal Nandurkar have a great mastery over the pencil medium. Their demonstrations and picture gallery explain every aspect of this medium.