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. ..a great resource for all trail bikers and runners, hikers and kayakers. -- Pat Piazza Arkansas Bicycle Club

Eric Mantle's book will be a treasured resource for students of art and design and a truly great asset in any serious art professor's library. The masterful illustrations of these basic principles of color, perspective and everything fundamental to understanding a 3-dimensional world within a 2-dimensional plane is illustrated so clearly that, especially for those among us who are primarily visual learners, the lessons connect. -- David L. Deming, a sculptor and president and CEO of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Professor Mantle presents color theory in a unique format that clearly illustrates the effect of perspective on color, light and shade. This technique should be a primary tool for all serious painters. -- Joan Klatil Creamer, Industrial and Product Designer Every now and then, a teaching tool comes along that really makes a difference. This is one! -- Jef Sturm, President, Jef Sturm Graphic Design, Pawley's Island, South Carolina

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Whenever art instructor Eric Mantle talks art with his students, he likes to send them home with a drawing that also provides a visual explanation of the idea. One student collected so many of these that he told Mantle he had enough to make a book. Taking the student's cue, Mantle assembled his drawings into a unique way to present the fundamental principles of studio art in a clear and concise manner. His book, A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory, released by Parkhurst Brothers, Publishers, is the result. With more than three decades in the studio and in the classroom, Mantle has designed his book to serve as a text for college and high school instructors and students, as well as a reference for professional and amateur artists. ""As an art student and then later as a college professor,"" Mantle said, ""I was always frustrated by instructional books that introduced visual concepts primarily as verbal descriptions accompanied by unclear diagrams. ""I have written (drawn) a book that explains visual art principles in a primarily visual manner with a minimal amount of copy.""

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