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...
Category: Worth buying: 3-5 palettes
How To Draw Animals, Jack Hamm – Book Review
It's another Jack Hamm book, a 120-page paperback about drawing animals. Just like the Jack Hamm book on people and faces, this isn't a book to...
Drawing The Head & Figure, Jack Hamm – Book Review
And now for something completely different. A book that can't be read. This isn't a book that you can sit down and read cover to cover because...
Dynamic Watercolours, Jane Betteridge – Book Review
This one's a 144 page paperback and is absolutely packed with ideas. While it's a paperback, it feels more resilient than other paparbacks, with...
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...
Mastering Composition, Ian Roberts – Book Review
144 pages plus DVD. I thought I'd check out a book on composition and this book by Ian Roberts has been getting rave reviews for some time. So I...
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...
Learn To Paint People Quickly, Hazel Soan – Book Review
This book was 112 pages long but felt much shorter. Ah, maybe that's because it's A5 sized, meaning it's more like a 56 page long pamphlet that's...
Atmospheric Flowers In Watercolour, Jean Haines – Book Review
176 pages. This book is about Jean Haines' atmospheric style of painting as much as it's about painting flowers. Anybody serious about painting...
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...
30-Minute Landscapes, Paul Talbot-Greaves – Book Review
This is the shortest book in my collection at only 64 pages. I can only imagine it was going cheap. I was still looking only at bargains when I...
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...
Big Brush Watercolour, Ron Ranson – Book Review
This one's one step up from Frank Clarke. It's about painting landscapes in a fairly loose manner. Using a big brush as it says in the name of the...
Frank Clarke’s Paintbox – Book Review
I've been tinkering around with the Amazon wishlist recently, looking for books that I might want for my birthday in the summer. And I don't like...
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...