Janet Swailes (Dumfries Landscape Architect and Galloway Council

Field Sketching and the Experience of Landscape

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Janet Swailes takes the reader on a journey through the art of field sketching, why it is a vital tool for landscape architects, how to be immersed in the process, and provides guidance on tasks, tips and tricks to develop skills from those starting out on a design course to those looking to improve their sketching habits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 190mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1194g
• ISBN-13: 9781138013957
• ISBN-10: 1138013951
• Artikelnr.: 45292429

Autorenporträt

Janet Swailes is an artist and landscape architect living in the Upper Eden Valley, Cumbria. She has worked for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, Stirling Council, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, as a freelance consultant landscape architect and illustrator, and she currently works for Dumfries and Galloway Council. She has a PhD in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art, where she was originally an undergraduate.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reviewing Field Sketching as a Contemporary Practice
1.1 Introduction to Field Sketching
1.2 Changes in how we think about Perception
1.3 Theory
Ideas and Arts Practice
2. Developing the Technique of Field Sketching
2.1 Towards an Integrated Visual and Experiential Approach
2.2 Fieldwork and Field Notion
2.3 Drawing in the Field
3. Core Skills
3.1 Fieldwork and Field Notation
3.2 Drawing in the Field
Conclusion