Field Sketching and the Experience of Landscape was published by Routledge in 2016.
“Janet Swailes has a rare gift for expressing the qualities of the landscape through the medium of field sketching. She clearly articulates and demonstrates the ways that we can all learn to use field sketching to understand and communicate our experience of the landscape in effective ways. Whether you’re an enthusiastic amateur who wants to learn how to ‘read the landscape’ with greater clarity, or a professional practitioner wanting to record or communicate key information effectively and with economy of line and image, this is the book for you. Janet is a wonderful communicator, in image above all else, demonstrating how field sketching may be one way to return to the basics of understanding our environment that many of us long for, and find hard to achieve in a digital age.”
Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK
Excerpts from book jacket:
The act of field sketching allows us to experience the landscape first-hand, rather than relying on plans, maps and photographs at a distance, back in the studio. Aimed primarily at landscape architects, Janet Swailes takes the reader on a journey through the art of field sketching, providing guidance and tips to develop skills from those starting out on a design course to those looking to improve their sketching.
Combining techniques from landscape architecture and the craft and sensibilities of arts practice, she invites us to experience sensations directly out in the field to enrich our work: to look closely at the effects of light and weather; understand the lie of the land through travel and walking; and to consider the lines of sight from the inside out as well as the outside in.
Sample pages
Field Sketching and the Experience of Landscape
Temporal qualities
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Field Sketching and the Experience of Landscape
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