An introduction to perspective by Ray Smith

The DK Art School

AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE

Turn the pages of An Introduction to Perspective and discover an art course that will help you learn - simply but effectively - how to use perspective to create expressive, accomplished works of art.

ALL-VISUAL ART COURSE

Painting and drawing projects and exercises, using fully annotated, all-photographic sequences, guide you from simple one-point perspective to more complex compositions.

Paintings created before your eyes by professional artists show you, in

progressive stages, how to apply

perspective in your own work. Unique

"Gallery" pages then inspire you by displaying selected works of masters and contemporary artists. By the end of the course you will be able to use perspective confidently to achieve exciting results.

PROJECTS INCLUDE:

Atmospheric perspective • Using grids

• Painting foreshortened figures
• Anamorphic images
• Curvilinear perspective