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Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies 'The Elements of Drawing', a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/
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| 9 | Creative Commons | 1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing | Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 8 | Creative Commons | 2. The Tip of the Pencil | Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | 3. The Edge of the Pencil | Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | 4. Toned Paper | Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | 5. Making a Livelier Drawing | Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | 6. Measured Drawing | Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | 7. With Colour | Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | 8. Field Notes | Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory. | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | 9. Creativity | Lesson 8. Invention! | Stephen Farthing | 24 Mar 2011 |