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Reinhold Publishing Corporation, Published 1961. Hardcover, 61 pp.; 27 cm; Second Printing (1964); illustrated throughout with black-and-white wash drawings and photographs, 5 color plates; illustrated endpapers.
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In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Green and black illustrated cloth-covered boards with mild shelf and edge wear and mild toning. Binding tight. Old yellow tape on front and rear paste-downs where dust jacket was once taped to the book, with a 1.5" tear to the paper of the front paste-down alongside one of the tape strips. Interior pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Yellow illustrated dust jacket with color reproductions of Brooks wash drawings on front and rear panels. A few nicks and tears of 1/2" or less, and creasing along edges. Mild overall shelf and edge wear with some color loss along edges and spine and some soiling along edges. Front flap price clipped, with a 1" tear and some chipping. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Volume in the Reinhold Art Course Series, a practical course in brush, pen and ink wash for beginners and students, written in San Miguel de Allende, where Brooks had lived since 1947. Short illustrated chapters cover materials, line, texture, black-and-white massing, bamboo pen and brush, dry brush, masking and papers, with a panel comparing seven sketching media and a strip of six papers (Strathmore, Grumbacher, Whatman, d'Arches, David Cox, tinted charcoal). "Seven Wash Drawings Analyzed" sets a Quebec village photograph beside his sketches of the same scene, and a closing gallery reproduces wash drawings by ten contemporary artists, including James Pinto and Louis Ribak. The color plates show Mexican market, street and village scenes; the endpapers reproduce a full-spread wash landscape signed in the plate "Leonard Brooks. Vancouver. 52." Brooks (1911-2011) was an official Canadian war artist and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and the Canadian Group of Painters. Contents: Foreword; Materials; Put a Line Around It!; Black, White, and Gray; Textures; Spot Out the Blacks, Make the Whites Count; Bamboo and Brush; Brush Control; Line and Wash; Dry Brush; Masking; Combined Techniques; Sketchbooks; Seven Sketching Techniques; Papers; Out-of-Doors; Panoramas; Color Illustrations (Market Place, Street Scene, Mountain Village, Flower Study, Trees); Streets and Walls; Seven Wash Drawings Analyzed; A Suggested Short Course of Study; Wash Drawings by Ten Contemporary Artists; Bibliography of Useful Books.