The Art of Teaching Art: A Guide for Teaching and Learning the Foundations of Drawing-Based Art
"In thirty- six years of teaching all aspects of drawing to students aspiring to become artists and teachers, I have labored my way by trial and error to conclusions Deborah Rockman outlines so very clearly in herTHE ART OF TEACHING ART. With high tuition costs, students have the right to demand sensitive and informed instruction even from teachers just beginning their career. This comprehensive compendium of the arcana of studio teaching is invaluable. The special difficulties of revealing the possibilites and limits of perspective are well presented; insights I thought all my own I find in this book."-R. Richard Gayton, Drawing and Painting Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts"A much-needed guide to the teaching and learning of important areas of foundation drawing.  The book's explication of sighting, scaling, and perspective methods is particularly useful.  Also, the emphasis on teaching methods of visual measure and the need for a translation process between 2-D and 3-D seeing is welcome.  The focus on these issues will encourage many teachers to go into much greater depth than is the usual practice.  Rockman provides enough information and detail to aid teachers in creating classroom assignments and for students to practice these techniques without a teacher. I have always believed that, particularly in art and design, teaching and learning are intimately interrelated activities and that one important way of leaning a subject matter is to teach it.The Art of Teaching Artencourages teachers to be students and students to imagine being teachers." --Bill Fasolino, Foundation Chairperson, Pratt Institute School of Art & Design"Rockman demystifies the process of perceptual drawing by comprehensively providing practical methods and strategies for measuring visual experience. The book includes lucid explanation of proportion, perspective, composition and metaphor to space.  An excellent, clearly illustrated introduction to the teaching of the visual arts,The Art of Teaching Artis a pleasure for artists, students and teachers who are interested in the project of approaching representation of nature.  In fact, the well-organized treatment and wealth of information, illustration and defining vocabulary may well become a handbook for professionals working in this arena of the visual arts." --Thomas Cornell, Professor of Art, Bowdoin College