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Watts My Line? | £19.95 | |||
Author: David Dixon. Two generations of technical artists and illustrators have now been influenced by Lawrie Watts cutaway drawings of motorcycles, motorcars, aircraft and farm machinery. Long before the development of CAD, the legendary Lawrie Watts was drawing amazingly complex machinery in three dimensional detail, He had the happy knack of reducing the most complex piece of machinery into a simplified drawing. Lawrie's work was different, he evolved his own distinctive style which could be recognised without looking at the signature, the meticulous attention to detail, the way he drew onlookers into the picture, the way his drawing told a story even though his brief had been merely to draw the thing. Lawrie is not just an artist, he's a designer too. A fine example of this is his Royal Enfield-powered Dreamliner. It looked just right and was way ahead of its time. This book provides a fascinating insight into Lawrie's problem solving through drawing. From the Dreamliner and motorcycles, car projects such as the Land Rover, Jaguar's XJ13 and the Audi Quattro drawing which got him Artist of the year 1985, to Donald Campbell's Bluebird, Richard Noble's Thrust and Richard Branson's epic hot air balloons. Anyone interested in how things work will enjoy this voyage through the life, the ideas and the wonderful work of the perceptive and inventive Mr Lawrence Watts. The book is lavishly illustrated in full colour. 288 pages. HB. SKU: WMLRB ISBN: 9780954435776 |
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