Hawthorne on Painting - Charles W. Hawthorne

Hawthorne on Painting by Charles W. Hawthorne brings together the artist-teacher’s classroom instruction from his Cape Cod School of Art. This edition is a paperback.

Key details

• Author: Charles W. Hawthorne
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 96
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 28 March 2003
• ISBN: 9780486206530

Synopsis

Drawn from students’ notes taken over 31 years of teaching, this book preserves the immediacy of Hawthorne’s on-the-spot guidance and the personal tone of the original classroom. Rather than presenting a tightly structured course, it gathers practical observations that address specific problems in painting while remaining widely applicable to a reader’s own work.

The content is organised into sections on the outdoor model, still life, landscape, the indoor model, and watercolour, each opening with a concise essay before moving into comments on fundamentals such as general character, colour, form, seeing and posture. Colour receives particular attention, reflecting Hawthorne’s reputation for helping students learn to see it with greater clarity. Suitable for student painters and anyone interested in art instruction.

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