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...
Posts that are not about paintings
Jimbo
More Tuesday portraiture and it's another bassist and Facebook friend. This is Jimbo, a mate from school, bassist with grungy rock duo Matildaz...
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...
Winsor & Newton Promarkers
These beasts were waiting for me on Christmas morning. They're all Winsor & Newton Promarkers with a chisel head at one end and a pointy one...
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...
Summer 2019 Poll Results
Here are the results of the latest poll. Hidden Village came out equal top. Otherwise no big surprises really. People are still welcome to vote...
Summer 2019 Poll
The nights are fair drawin' in and I don't think I'll be out in the garden painting much more this year, so I think it's time for another painting...
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....
Light And Shade In Watercolour, Hazel Soan – Book Review
I feel so guilty for saying this, because I do like all her other books in my collection, but this is a clunker from Hazel. I was hoping that this...
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...
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....
Birthday Book Stash
I got all these nine new art instruction books for my birthday. It may take some time but I'll definitely be reading them all and posting reviews...
Expressive Painting, Joseph Stoddard – Book Review
My birthday's coming up and I have loads of new art instruction books to look through. First up is this 128 page volume by Joseph Stoddard, which...
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. ...