20 Ways to Draw a Chair and 44 Other Interesting Everyday Things: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

"Wonderful!" according to Betty A. Wright. My junior high students love using these books to draw, doodle, and create with. I don't let them draw in the books, though the books are designed that way, but they love the ideas, and the chance to work on their skills.. I thought this was going to be a book about Andrea Smith I thought this was going to be a book about HOW to draw, or an approach to drawing. Instead, t was just a collection of other people's doodles.cute to look at, but that's about it.. Five Stars Love this book and this series!

Create the perfect props and furnishings with this inspirational sketchbook that helps you doodle hundreds of simple, everyday items!This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Presented in the Lisa Solomon's uniquely creative style, this engaging and motivational practice book provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling, and designing.Get out your favorite drawing tool, and remember, there are not just 20 Ways to Draw a Chair!This volume will contain chairs, typewriters, teapots, cameras, vases, bird cages, clocks, lamps, violins, bowls, sofas, tools, pitchers, telephones, baskets, radios, bottles. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes - spoons, vases, baskets, lamps, bowls and much, much more--over 900 drawings, with

About the AuthorLisa Solomon is a studio artist that moonlights as a college professor and graphic designer. She has exhibited and works with galleries both nationally and internationally, is in numerous private and public collections, and is continually tweeking artworks in her backyard studio. She is drawn to found objects tending to alter them conceptually so their meanings and original uses or intents are repurposed. Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization (sparked from her Happa heritage), Solomon's mixed-media works and installations revolve thematically around domesticity, craft, and triggers that may be construed as masc

She often fuses "wrong" things together--recontextualizing their original purposes, and incorporating materials that question the line between ART and CRAFT. She is the author of Knot Thread Stitch (Quarry Books, 2012). She is drawn to found objects tending to alter them conceptually so their meanings and original uses or intents are repurposed. lisas