Sketching the Countryside

Introduction 1. Tools and Materials Basic Tools and Materials Pens and Inks Pencils Erasers Papers Working area 2. Techniques Basic Guidelines Pencil Techniques Pen Techniques Copying, Enlarging, or Reducing Using a Grid Overlay Transferring Your Drawing 3. Perspective Shortcuts About Perspective The Horizon One-point Perspective Two-point Perspective Adjusting the Vanishing Points 4. Backgrounds, Composition, and Drawing techniques Background and Middle Grounds Pairing Subjects with Backgrounds Creating a Center of Interest When to Stop Drawing Different Techniques: Practice Exercises 5. Drawing Rocks and Stone Walls Basic Structures The Shapes of Rocks On-the-Spot Sketches A Stone Quarry Foreground and Background Rocks Drawing Stone and Brick Walls Underground Stone Chamber 6. Drawing Wood and Wooden Things Basic Structure Drawing Rough-barked Trees Drawing Smooth-barked Trees Drawing a Pine Close Up Drawing Light Barns and Dark Barns Drawing Board and Batten Siding Drawing a Wooden Door from Different Distances A Stylized Approach to Drawing a Wooden Barn 7. Drawing Lakes, Streams, and Waterfalls Basic Structure Drawing a Rocky River Ocean Waves Reflections in Water Waterfall Tying it All Together in One Study 8. Sketching in the Southwestern U.S. Basic Structures Sketching an Adobe Building Sketching Large Rock Formations A Pima Indian Dwelling An Old Mission Texas Aqueduct Using Photographs The Alamo Abandoned Mine Railway An Old Arizona Farm Wagon Pencil Vignettes 9. Sketching Mountain Countrysides Basic Structures A Four-Tone Snowy Mountain Scene The Rocky Mountains Near Aspen Vignettes A Mountain Rain Forest Scene A Mountain Barn Three Studies of an Idaho Cabin Echo Rock, Mount Rainier 10. Sketching Rural North America Basic Structures Homestead at Cades Cove The Bales Place Near Gatlinburg The Mill at Glades Creek A Covered Crib at Cades Cove A Pennsylvania Barn Old Wooden Barn An Old Manure Spreader A Farmland Stream A Covered Bridge A Unique Barn A Wooden Mill Wheel 11. Sketching the English Countryside Basic Structures Sketching English Gardens Sketching English Country Churches Sketching Castles Sketching Stone Circles Sketching at Lee Bay Sketching Thatched Roofs 12. A Parting Word Bibliography Index