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Title: Artist's Manual: A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques by Angela Gair ISBN: 0-8118-1377-0 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A valuable resource book full of visual delights!
Comment: Artist's Manual, A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques was recommended to me by an art teacher. I have been painting for over thirty years and I doubted this book would be valuable--art is a visual and tactile thing, not always translated through the written word. I was wrong. This book is great. It's exciting to turn the pages...which are filled with good information and nicely designed. Good going Cronicle Books, you've done it again
Rating: 5
Summary: A Keeper
Comment: I see this book as a complement to Ray Smith's book The Artist's Handbook. Mainly because The Artist's Manual covers some media that the Ray Smith book doesn't. The chapters give a good introduction to things such as papers, canvas, stretching paper and canvas, preparing them with various types of grounds (the correct word is ground when referring to materials used to prime canvas - gesso technically refers only to grounds applied to prime wood panels - or did until paint marketing departments convinced artists to call any ground applied to any surface 'gesso').
Some of the media covered in this book are dry and water-soluable colored pencils, pastels, oil pastels, conte crayons, charcoal, pen and inks, colored drawing inks and markers. Paints covered include oils, oil bars, egg tempera, watercolor, gouache and acrylic. One of the nice things is that there is a special chapter devoted to Chromacolour paints (This is a type of paint that was developed for the film animation industry and is now available to fine artists and craftsmen). Each drawing or painting medium mentioned above has a chapter discussing painting techniques used for it.
The final one-third of the book covers such things as composition, color theory, working on location, landscapes, portraits, figures, architecture, setting up a studio, varnishing and framing, directory of suppliers, understanding health and safety information on paint labels, glossary and index. A really good reference book for any artists bookshelf.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: I'm a true novice, a friend once said I like to "color". She may be right!
I find this book informative (basic info for people like me who didn't go to art class in school) and inspirational. I love the art in it and the collage with art materials on the cover and throughout the book is stunning. A must even for us non-artists!
I bought the book a few years back and still dig it out when I feel the urge to be creative. That to me is a sign of a good book! It is a book that I look at over and over again, and doesn't get "dated".
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Title: Art Class: A Complete Guide to Painting by Simon Jennings, Sally Bulgin ISBN: 081182537X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: New Artist's Handbook by Ray Smith ISBN: 0789493365 Publisher: DK Publishing Inc Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: DK Art School: An Introduction to Art Techniques (DK Art School) by Ray Smith, Ray Wright, James Horton, Michael Wright, Royal Academy of Arts ISBN: 0789451514 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter by Steve Allrich ISBN: 0823032698 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer, Steven Sheehan ISBN: 0670837016 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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