Time for another book review. Still considering myself a novice with soft pastels, I've had my eye on this one for a while and when the price...
Category: Really good books: 4-5 palettes
Creating Textured Landscapes With Pen, Ink And Watercolor, Claudia Nice – Book Review
This is the last of the stash of art books that I got for my birthday. It's a 144 page paperback and is in landscape format. It's still roughly...
Painting And Understanding Abstract Art, John Lowry – Book Review
Time for another book review and today it's this one by John Lowry on painting abstracts. It's a 160 page paperback by Crowood. I’m not going to...
David Bellamy’s Complete Guide To Landscapes – Book Review
Things have been a bit quiet over the last couple of days as I've been reading this 288 page paperback monster. It's one of those books that's been...
Pastels For The Absolute Beginner, Rebecca De Mendonça – Book Review
This book wasn't a birthday present. it's just that after getting all those pastels, I wanted to know how to use then before getting started and...
Japanese Style Watercolor Portraits, Hiroko Shibasaki – Book Review
I wasn't expecting to be doing a book review today. The only job I had on my list was to update my swatch reference sketchbook with notes on my...
Life Drawing In Charcoal, Douglas R. Graves – Book Review
Time for another book review. I've been holding back from figure drawing in charcoal because I wanted to read this book first. Well, I don't have...
Painting Portraits In Watercolour, Liz Chaderton – Book Review
With the art studio out of bounds while building work is going on, there's not been much painting action going on lately so I thought I'd use the...
Drawing From Photos, Patrick J. Jones – Book Review
Work still continues on the patio outside and it's possible that I might not be able to access the studio again until it's all over but I did...
Painting Trees, Rob and Siân Dudley – Book Review
The latest of my birthday books to be scrutinised is this one by Rob and Siân Dudley. It's about, guess what, painting trees. It's a 176 page...
Breaking The Rules Of Watercolour, Shirley Trevena – Book Review
Another book review and, for the second time in a row, it's a book that had a different focus to what I was expecting. I did put this book on my...
Drawing With Charcoal, Kate Boucher – Book Review
Ok, let's have one more book review. This was the first book. I read after the first batch of birthday presents arrived as I was keen to read any...
Essential Techniques Of Landscape Drawing, Suzanne Brooker – Book Review
So here's the book I got for Fathers' Day and have just spent three days reading. It's a 196 page hardback book, with reassuringly thick, shiny...
Capturing Light, Catherine Beale – Book Review
What with all the doors and windows in the house being replaced this week, I've had too much on to be thinking about to be able to do any painting....
The Artist’s Complete Guide To Drawing The Head, William L. Maughan – Book Review
I only discovered this book on Amazon a couple of weeks ago and it didn't last on my wishlist for long. The style of drawing that it describes is...
Painting Watercolour Snow Scenes The Easy Way, Terry Harrison – Book Review
I bought another book this week. It's been down near the bottom of my wishlist for a while but when the price suddenly fell to £7.41 I jumped in...
The Natural Way To Paint, Charles Reid – Book Review
Not a Christmas present, this one. It's a book I've been after a while and that I've been watching out for using the CamelCamelCamel website,...
Landscape In Ink And Coloured Pencil, Helen Hanson – Book Review
Here's the review of the second of the three books on coloured pencil that I got for Christmas. It's a 160 page paperback and is not just about a...
Hazel Soan’s Art Of The Limited Palette – Book Review
This is one gorgeous looking book. It's a 192-page hardback and the name of the book in the top right has been embossed. I can't stop running my...
The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Mitchell Albala – Book Review
Now here's a book I've been looking forward to. It's Mitch's second book. The first got rave reviews but was very oils focused. This one is...