176 pages. This book is about Jean Haines' atmospheric style of painting as much as it's about painting flowers. Anybody serious about painting...
Category: Book Reviews
Painting Successful Watercolours From Photographs, Geoff Kersey – Book Review
I'm struggling to find much to say about this one. It does pretty well exactly what it says on the tin. I've not counted them but there must be...
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...
Painting Abstracts, Rolina Van Vliet – Book Review
Right. We're into the modern day at last. It's late 2018 and I've finally started to feel like a decent artist, producing paintings that I can...
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...
Watercolour Landscapes, Richard Taylor – Book Review
At the time I bought this book I was only painting landscapes and my artwork was terrible. It was so bad that I was loathe to spend money on books...
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...
New books
I've got some new books to be making my way through over the next few weeks. Maybe some early signs of what to expect in 2019.