Another book review. Today it's Zoltan Szabo's 70 Favourite Watercolor (sic) Techniques. I bought this a couple of days ago after spotting that...
Category: Really good books: 4-5 palettes
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, Betty Edwards – Book Review
I was hopeless at drawing just two weeks ago but you'll have seen in my last couple of posts that this has changed and it's all down to this book....
Making Color Sing, Jeanne Dobie – Book Review
160 pages, paperback. So what's in this book then? Well, the first 100 pages are about colour. What to have in your palette, some colour mixing...
Jean Haines’ Atmospheric Watercolours – Book Review
It's back to the watery world of Jean Haines with this chunky 176-page whopper. This book is very much focussed on technique rather than on...
The Essence Of Watercolour, Hazel Soan – Book Review
Next up is The Essence Of Watercolour by Hazel Soan. It's a 128 page paperback. This was a really quick read. I got through it in one evening....
Ann Blockley’s Watercolour Workshop – Book Review
I saw this one the other day in a bookshop in Bluewater and it looked so good, I decided I couldn't wait until my birthday. I had to have it. ...
Keep Painting, Gordon MacKenzie – Book Review
This one is 144 pages long and the first thing I notice is that it doesn’t feel like other art instruction hardbacks. The cover is warm and matty...
Realistic Abstracts, Kees Van Aalst – Book Review
This one is 160 pages long, but it’s one of those square shaped ones with smaller pages and a bit more white space so, content-wise, is probably...
Experimental Landscapes In Watercolour, Ann Blockley – Book Review
128 pages. This is a well-titled book. Any piece of artwork is an experiment. You never know how it's going to work out. Especially when you...
Watercolour Painting, Tom Hoffmann – Book Review
This one was expensive but it was worth every penny. It's quite a big one at 208 pages. This feels like the definitive stage 3 in a journey that...
Terry Harrison’s Complete Guide To Watercolour Landscapes – Book Review
I'm still in the dark days of being a terrible artist and only looking for book bargains, but I struck gold with this one. It's 192 pages long and...
Learn To Paint Watercolour With The Experts, Crawshaw/Bellamy/Ranson/Soan – Book Review
This is a weird one that I'd forgotten I even owned. It looks big at 224 pages but when you open it up, you find that it's made up of four short...
Hazel Soan’s Watercolour Rainbow – Book Review
I lashed out on another book last week. I don't plan on turning this into a site that reviews books but I have to say this one is well worth the...