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A guide to books and online resources about different aspects of drawing including perspective, color, the figure, and more.
Books That Inspire
These are some suggested readings from your Art instructors for those times when you feel "stuck" as you look for ideas, inspiration, motivation, etc....
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Call Number: BH301.C84 N33 1990
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Call Number: NC730 .E34 2012b
The Courage to Create by Call Number: BF408 .M33 1994
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting by Available as an e-book
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Call Number: N71 .B37 1993
Ways of Seeing by Call Number: N7430.5 .W39 1973
Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997 by Call Number: NB237 .B65 A2 1998
The View from the Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way in an Uncertain World by Call Number: N71 .O74 2006
Letters to a Young Poet by Call Number: PT2635.I65 A6 2013
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Call Number: N6537.I64 W4 2008
101 Things to Learn in Art School by Call Number: N325 .W49 2011
A Room of One's Own by Call Number: PN471 .W6
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life by Call Number: BF408 .T415 2006
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life by Call Number: NX180.A77 A749 2017
