Unleash your inner artist in just a couple of days with this hands-on beginner's guide to drawing full of techniques, projects, and inspiration.

Learn to Draw in a Weekend leads the reader through basic techniques and skill-building exercises to a variety of fully developed projects. Developing artists go from indoor drawing on Saturday to a beautiful Sunday of drawing outside. Beginning with simple shapes and lines drawings, they soon learn to add texture, depth, and color.

Each project is packed with encouraging advice and helpful tips for a variety of drawing media, including graphite pencils, colored pencils, Conte, pastel, charcoal and watercolor pencils. The volume also features inspirational artworks, and professional advice from theauthor and acclaimed artist Richard Taylor.

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Richard Taylor has written several art instruction titles including The Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings and Natural Watercolors. He lives in Clacton-on-Sea, England.