The Elements of Drawing

Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies 'The Elements of Drawing', a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/

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Episode	Description	People	Date
9. Creativity	Lesson 8. Invention!	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
8. Field Notes	Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
7. With Colour	Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
6. Measured Drawing	Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
5. Making a Livelier Drawing	Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
4. Toned Paper	Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
3. The Edge of the Pencil	Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
2. The Tip of the Pencil	Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing	Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011

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