You knew it was coming and here it is - the Stephen a Quiller book review. This is a book that's been on my list for a while and I've now finally...
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The Big Book Of Realistic Drawing Secrets, Carrie Stuart Parks & Rick Parks – Book Review
Another birthday book. This is a 224 page paperback. It's a book that's aimed at people wanting to draw with graphite pencils. It feels more...
Painting Animals In Watercolour, Liz Chaderton – Book Review
Another birthday book. This is a 112 page long paperback. So slightly short on pages but also small in other ways, being only about 7 inches by...
Create Perfect Paintings, Nancy Reyner – Book Review
Now this is more like it. This is a 144 page hardback that I've been after for a while and that I was very glad to see appear at the door over the...
Beginner’s Guide To Painting With Oil Pastels, Tim Fisher – Book Review
Here's the first of my post-birthday book reviews. This was a (slightly thin) 96 page paperback. The wife bought me it along with the Sennelier...
Panting Expressive Watercolour, Bridget Woods – Book Review
I'd been after this book for a while and got it as a Fathers' Day present. It's a 192-page paperback with some quite dense text in places so has...
Bridget Woods Exercises
The other book I got on Fathers' Day was Painting Expressive Watercolour by Bridget Woods. I'm taking my time over reading this one as it's one of...
Vibrant Watercolours, Hazel Lale – Book Review
This is quite exciting. I got two art instruction books from my oldest for Fathers' Day! I've read this one already and am ready with my review....
Pulling Your Paintings Together, Charles Reid – Book Review
You have to be patient waiting for the prices of these Charles Reid books to drop to something at the high end of acceptability but this one...
Watercolour Textures, Ann Blockley – Book Review
This one's 128 pages long. It's a hardback and was going for only £8.50. I just had to buy it. There's no way I could leave it sitting there at...
Webb On Watercolor, Frank Webb – Book Review
If you've not discovered the camel camel camel website before, you should really check it out. It monitors the prices on Amazon of whatever CDs...
Book Review Rating Policy
I saw the other day that I'd reached fifty pages linked to the subject of book reviews and thought it was about time that I said something about...
Colour And Abstraction, George Blacklock – Book Review
This book was going cheap on Amazon the other day and it was on my wishlist, so I exercised my market timing muscles and bought it. It's a 128...
Landscape Painting Essentials, Johannes Vloothuis: Book Review
I've had my eye on this book for a while, so ordered it as soon as I'd opened all my presents and the Christmas Amazon furlough was over. It's a...
Colour And Light: A Guide For The Realistic Painter, James Gurney – Book Review
This might be the last book review for a while as it's the last of the books from my birthday stash. It's the James Gurney book that I've heard so...
Inktober All Year Long, Jake Parker: Book Review
This book has been accused of plagiarising Pen & Ink Drawing by Alphonso Dunn. Just watch this video https://youtu.be/bG3ENcAdWBM and make...
The Complete Urban Sketching Companion, Gabriel Campanario, Stephanie Bower & Shari Blaukopf – Book Review
Another book review, only two days after the book was published. This is a 256-page, A5-sized paperback. It's a mashup of four books from the...
Expressive Figure Drawing, Bill Buchman – Book Review
And it's time for another book review, and again it's a book on figure drawing. After this I really need to do more artwork before reading the two...
Figure Drawing For Artists: Making Every Mark Count, Steve Huston – Book Review
Time for another book review. This is 192 pages long, and is flexibound, meaning it’s a paperback but with a cover that's bent inwards along the...
Painting By Design, Charles Reid – Book Review
This 144-page paperback is one of those books that's difficult to categorise. The title and subtitle on the front page make it sound like it's all...