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This inspiring guide provides artists with the knowledge they need to paint watercolor landscapes. It features... more

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  The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes

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  • Posted:Oct-02-2009

  • Excellent book
  • Nice illustrations, easy to follow instructions. I mainly use acrylics and am able to use the same techniques as in this book with a few variations to get the same effect. Would recommend this...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2007

  • Nice book to buy but
  • Its a nice book but if you already have the other book from Gordon Mackenzie, I wouldn't recommend it. Basically half the book almost has the same things.
    
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  • Posted:Sep-06-2002

  • Major dissappointment
  • Simply a big dissappointment. Could perhaps be considered a good introduction to the media for an absolute beginner, but lacks depth for any serious practitioner. Too American for my taste as well....
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Encaustic is a waxed-based painting medium characterized by luminous color and a lush surface. It's an ancient art,... more

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  The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax

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  • Posted:Sep-20-2009

  • THE book on encaustic painting
  • If you are painting with encaustics, you need this book. I have used it as my text when teaching at Penland School and I never get tired of reading it, keep it where I can always find it, and...
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  • Encaustic Nowadays
  • As I'm a painter and want to expand my set of materials I'm using, I bought it, it is a very good book to get into Encaustic
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Internationally renowned artist and best-selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own... more

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  Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory

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  • Posted:Apr-05-2009

  • Good Book
  • Definitely worth buying. Lots of information and I will use this book over and over again. I have lots of watercolor painting books, and this rates as one of the most informative. The Quiller...
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  • This book is trash
  • If you want a book about jarring, hideous color combinations and no useful information whatsoever, get this one. There are so many bad art instruction books, and this one is one of the worst & most...
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Collected from notes taken by students at famous Cape Cod School; hundreds of direct, personal aper?us, ideas,... more

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  Hawthorne on Painting

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  • Posted:Sep-10-2009

  • In Between My Brushes and Paints
  • Painters: you will love this book. It's like the Cliff notes of our medium. The title says it all because this book is not about that ephemeral thing called "art", it's more like a pocket tutor on...
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  • Posted:Mar-20-2007

  • Good reading but:...
  • How good could be an advice or critic if you dont see the pictures that goes
    along with it. I did appreciate the reading of this book, but I'd say half of
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Like some of the most popular art instruction books ever written, this 25th anniversary edition of a W-G classic is... more

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  Oil Painting Secrets from a Master

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  • Posted:Jul-10-2009

  • art lessons are important to continued learning.
  • Everytime an artist studies the masters, current or old masters, it is a chance to grow. It takes much practice and time to achieve good art. Do not be satisfied until you understand the skills...
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  • Posted:Dec-28-2008

  • Leffel is pretty good at a few things
  • In a way the book is silly. Leffel is more of an illustrator than fine artist in that he does not grapple with any serious compositional problems and only deals with how light (and color) reveal...
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  • Posted:Oct-17-2008

  • Very disappointed
  • I purchased Oil Painting Secrets from a Master and must say I was extremely disappointed, both with the written and the visual content. I own a number of art books from contemporary masters and...
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Digital cameras and software have revolutionized the world of photography. With seemingly endless products available,... more

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A painting wouldnt be the same without its frame. In fact, a frame can be as important as the art it surrounds. Yet... more

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  Secret Lives of Frames: One Hundred Years of Art and Artistry

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  • Posted:Jul-30-2008

  • Beautifully illustrated very informative read!
  • I purchased this book to better understand and appreciate frames. I was not disappointed! The book starts with a general description of what is involved in making a gesso frame. With photographs...
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  • Posted:Dec-29-2007

  • Great Inspiration
  • As a long time furniture maker and also someone who is making frames, this book has a wealth of photographic history documenting frames from the beginnings of the art movements in Europe and is...
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How do you draw a fairy? It?s not like you can convince one to do life modeling in your studio. How to Draw and Paint... more

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  How to Draw and Paint Fairies: From Finding Inspiration to Capturing Diaphanous Detail, a...

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  • Posted:Sep-16-2008

  • Some Ability Necessary
  • This book was certainly helpful. I especially liked the easy to draw faces. This book is great for people with intermediate drawing skills. If you only have very basic drawing skills, you will...
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  • Posted:May-23-2008

  • Lacks modesty for younger children
  • I was looking for a drawing guide for my daughter's 11th birthday and was hoping this book would be the key. We flipped through it at the craft store and it looked like a great instructional guide....
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  • Posted:Dec-25-2007

  • nice book but...
  • this is a nice little book. but i don't think the fairy faces are very pretty. it gives you good ideas for the poses. but you'll have to have some knowledge of how you like pretty fairy faces to...
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Here expert watercolorist Cathy Johnson shows them how in her practical step-by-step manner. Johnson shows how to... more

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  Creating Textures in Watercolor: A Guide to Painting 83 Textures from Grass to Glass to Tree Bark...

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  • Posted:Mar-18-2008

  • Hints and Tips Galore
  • Most books are like a three-course meal, a beginning, a middle and an end, to make sense you have to read them that way, this one is like a box of chocolates, you take the lid off and just look for...
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  • Posted:Jan-01-2007

  • Very disappointing
  • I was very excited when I read the title for this book and ordered it. Upon its arrival I read through the whole thing in about 20 minutes and was very disappointed. Her "tips" for texture...
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Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive... more

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This volume brings together around 200 of Giger's paintings, sketches and photographs, as well as autobiographical... more

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  H. R. Giger's Necronomicon

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  • Posted:Jan-03-2008

  • a great christmas gift!
  • My boyfriend is a huge HR Giger fan, so for christmas i purchased this book as a surprise present. He was very happy with it, which made me happy :)
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  • Posted:Oct-31-2007

  • Pathetic when you see through the lies
  • I just found out that the so-called "signature" inside the book is actually printed, and not even Giger's at all. What a disgrace. The store owner actually believed it was signed, and so he mis-led...
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  • Posted:Oct-19-2006

  • More to do about the idea of Hell than Lovecraft.
  • H. R. Giger always states that he has been influenced by H. P. Lovecraft, but I see little of that in his work. I love the fact that he takes a title from Lovecraft's fiction and does not...
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The Kiss of Klimt: the most fascinating painter of Vienna?s Belle Epoque ... Gustav Klimt?s art is thoroughly fin... more

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  Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918: the World in Female Form (Big Art)

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  • disappointing
  • the book is small, 8 x 10 - there is no fold out. the color reproductions, and even the black and white reproductions are muddy and indistinct - very disappointing. However, the written...
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  • Posted:Jul-25-2008

  • Review by Skid Lo, courtesy of Gunter Kelm
  • This is truly a wonderful book. The paintings are beautifully re-produced and printed. The analysis is in depth and fascinating. I would like an index of all the works contained in the book....
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  • Some regrets
  • I didn?t pay much attention to the description of the book, something that proved to be an error. Unfortunatly, i intented to buy a large book with paintings in a more adequate size, and this book...
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The collected works of Britain?s most wanted artist.Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator,... more

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  Wall and Piece

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  • Posted:Sep-10-2009

  • Banksy is the Man
  • Banksy the mystery man has put together a beautiful, moving, outrageous, brilliant book.
    He's an amazing artist, and is politically and socially challenging.
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  • Posted:Aug-25-2007

  • OK Book and Idea but
  • If you want real graffiti look at other books especially "The Birth of Graffiti" by Jon Naar
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This inspiring guide provides artists with the knowledge they need to paint watercolor landscapes. It features... more

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  The Watercolorists Essential Notebook

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  • Posted:Oct-02-2009

  • Excellent book
  • Nice illustrations, easy to follow instructions. I mainly use acrylics and am able to use the same techniques as in this book with a few variations to get the same effect. Would recommend this...
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  • Posted:Aug-23-2007

  • Nice book to buy but
  • Its a nice book but if you already have the other book from Gordon Mackenzie, I wouldn't recommend it. Basically half the book almost has the same things.
    
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  • Major dissappointment
  • Simply a big dissappointment. Could perhaps be considered a good introduction to the media for an absolute beginner, but lacks depth for any serious practitioner. Too American for my taste as well....
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The knowledge of perspective is invaluable to the serious artist, and it is the foundation of all good paintings and... more

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  Perspective (Artist's Library series #13)

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  • Posted:Sep-08-2009

  • As Advertised
  • It took a little while to recieve this product but was well worth the wait. Product appeared to be brand new and the content was what I wanted. Good vendor.
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  • Posted:Sep-28-2008

  • ok
  • Showed the basics, not a lot of depth in the material, but enough for you to get the gist of drawing in perspective.
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Difficult to grasp and harder still to achieve, composition is a chief concern of artists at every level. This clear... more

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Eric Sloane's evocative oils of America's landscape and material culture shimmer with immense historical and... more

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Mural Painting Secrets for Success will give readers the tools they need to paint fantastic murals following the... more

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  Mural Painting Secrets for Success: Expert Advice for Hobbyists and Pros

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  • mural painting has inspiration gallore
  • I have about every faux and mural painting books that amazon carries, and this is one of my favorites. It's full of refreshing inspiration for the person that is looking for some new direction for...
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The extraordinary painting Black and White: Suprematist Composition (1915) by Kasimir Malevich (1879-1935) lies at... more

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841?1919) was one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age. Throughout... more

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  Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 (National Gallery Company)

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  • One could only wish Renoir painted more landscapes
  • Four essays precede the plates: The Public Face of Renoir as a Landscapist by John House; `The Victory of Modern Art' Landscape Painting in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France by Simon Kelly; Renoir in...
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