The Art of Shading – Objects By Pundalik Vaze

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.

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.

After the success of his first book 'Figure Drawing', Tushar Moleshwari is back with his second book Head Study. Human head is one of the most complex forms. Drawing a head can be difficult if it is not simplified. Simplification is the key. Keeping this in mind, Tushar Moleshwari explains the basic fundamentals of drawing  human head in a simple way.  He also describes the skull and basic superficial muscle structure of the human head.