“Drawing: The Basics — Buying Drawing Supplies”

For many artists and artisans, and probably a good proportion of crafters as well, the ability to draw is an invaluable fundamental… The better you can draw, the better you can do your other forms of art and craft.

We've decided to bring you something a little different in this newsletter issue. For some of you this may be your first time to seriously consider drawing as your art, or as a bit of preliminary foundation for some other art form or media you're involved in.

We figured we'd start at the beginning and talk to one of Canada's experts about "Drawing", and more specifically in this article, what kind of supplies a person needs to start learning to draw.

We are very pleased to offer you some good solid teaching from a very accomplished artist, illustrator and author, Brenda Hoddinott.

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Brenda Hoddinott is a self-educated teacher, visual artist, portraitist, forensic artist (recently retired), writer, and illustrator. Her current art media include graphite, technical pen, colored pencil, chalk pastel, charcoal, conté crayon, and oil paints. Recent book publications by Brenda include Drawing for Dummies, March 4, 2003 (Wiley Publishing, Inc., New York, NY), and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing People Illustrated, August 2004 (Alpha/Pearson Education/Macmillan, Indianapolis, IN). CD publications include Drawing Fusion, 2003, and Learn to Draw Animals – Level One 2004 (Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers, Halifax, NS). Diverse art lessons and articles are available on her art education website, www.finearteducation.com

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