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...
Category: Book Reviews
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...
Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition, Frank Webb – Book Review
Now this is interesting. I just assumed that all books on composition were going to be similar, covering the same sort of stuff. The only book...
Life Drawing For Artists, Chris Legaspi – Book Review
This is a 176-page paperback and one of three books on figure drawing that I got for my birthday. I tell you, those other two are going to...
Painting Expressive Landscapes, Carole Robson – Book Review
On the face of it, this is a very similar book to the Jane Betteridge in my collection. It has artwork like that in the Ann Blockley books but...
En Plein Air Watercolor, Ron Stocke – Book Review
With all this painting I'm currently doing out and around the villages, I thought I'd start my birthday reading with this book. It's 128 pages...
Birthday Stash 3 of 3: New Books
Two more books just arrived in the post. That makes eight in my birthday stash and there may be a ninth on the way in a couple of weeks but I...
The Artist’s Guide To Painting Water In Watercolour: 30 Techniques, Ron Hazell – Book Review
This one had been on my list for a while and was starting to look difficult to find on Amazon, so I had a hunt around and found a website that was...
Draw People Every Day, Kagan McLeod – Book Review
Time for another book review. Today it's Draw People Every Day by Kagan McLeod. It's a hefty feeling 196-page paperback. It's a strange book...
Urban Watercolor Sketching, Felix Scheinberger – Book Review
This is a weird book. I went into it open-eyed, already aware that, despite its name, this wasn’t a book on urban sketching. I mean, you only...
Watercolor Masters And Legends, Betsy Dillard Stroud – Book Review
This is a 160-page hardback that I had one eye on and that I lashed out and bought when it dropped to under a fiver on Amazon. It talks about...
Sketching People, Lynne Chapman – Book Review
Time to review the other urban sketching book that I bought on Christmas Day. This one is a 128 page paperback but feels much longer. I've only...
The Urban Sketcher, Marc Taro Holmes – Book Review
I thought it was about time I read up on urban sketching. Even if I'd not been given those markers for Christmas, I was planning on heading out at...
Keys To Drawing, Bert Dodson – Book Review
I've made it to the end of Bert's book at last. At 224 pages long, it's huge. The first five chapters were fantastic. They're on contour...
Zoltan Szabo’s 70 Favourite Watercolor Techniques – Book Review
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...
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....