Marine Life with Wyland/Acrylic: Learn to Paint Step by Step (How to Series: Acrylic) Review

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Marine Life with Wyland/Acrylic: Learn to Paint Step by Step (How to Series: Acrylic) ReviewI must say that I was quite impressed with this book when it first arrived - it's fairly straight forward and does a good job of explaining the techniques he uses. It's great for someone just getting into painting as it explains all the materials and such. But after watching a episode of Wyland's art studio I would take the video over the book any day - which I think are superb. But still when you don't have the ability to have the video this is the next best thing - and there are still alot of techniques that can be learned and mastered. The projects in the book are laid out pretty well with step by step instruction. Clear and easy to follow it makes a great book for those interested in painting marine life or learning to paint "Wyland" style painting.Marine Life with Wyland/Acrylic: Learn to Paint Step by Step (How to Series: Acrylic) Overview

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The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide Review

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The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide ReviewYou need a good set of watercolors and some experience in painting in order to use this book. I am an art hobbyest who is interested in drawing flowers and other plants, therefore, I thought this "Introductory Guide" would be helpful to me. In fact, it is one of four such books that I recently bought from Amazon on this subject. (will post reviews on the other ones soon). While this book is at least as lovely as any of the others, it is actually all about watercolor painting.(Maybe it has something to do with the way the book was translated from the French?)
I work in graphite, pen-and-ink, colored pencils, and, newly, pastels. When I do branch out to watercolor I plan to first use my 16 pan Prang set from when I was in school. Where the book discusses materials, it depicts a professional watercolor set of FIFTY-THREE pans, and also, watercolors in tubes, such as professionals use. I'm sure I will be drawing (I mean "painting") plants with my good school Prang set soon, but you really do need a wide variety of pigments in order to get the full benefit of this book. **I just checked: such sets cost HUNDREDS of dollars**
On each beautiful two-page layout, a plant type is discussed (tiny type-face, though), gorgeous examples are shown, and a chart is presented with the names and swatches of the exact colors needed to render the subject. I've never seen this done, and it seems to be extraodinarily helpful. At the same time, this is no paint-by-number type of book, or one that teaches slavish copying.
Another thing I love about this book is botanical information it provides. Seeing and painting living plants is one thing, but to understand them, their anatomy and other characteristics is to add understanding and meaning to art work, in my opinion. (I hope to purchase a large "botany for artists" book sometime, too.)
Lovely book for watercolor artists. I don't think it is too short--there is plenty of information, and many types of plants and exercises. The type font is just rather small, especially when they use the script-style print. I can use my "readers glasses", but I can't do watercolors, so it was rather a waste for me.The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide Overview

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OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy Review

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OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy ReviewYep. There have been quite a few artbooks this year, and I liked a lot of them, in particular another very recent release, "Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth " by Donato Giancola, but this one is even better. It ranks alongside John Howe's artbook ( 2007) from Impact as the best one I have seen from this publisher, and alongside the great Charles Vess artbook from Dark Horse ( 2009) as my overall Fantasy art favorite.
Stunning, stunning illustrations. Needless to say I am a huge fan of Tom Kidd's work and if you are too, you will find here a vast array of dazzling work, as well as how-to instructions. Various topics are detailed, as you can also see in Amazon's search inside function. Kidd is one of the best illustrators the SFF field has ever had and this wonderful book underlines that even more.
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2012 Pawsitive Wisdom Wall Calendar Wall calendar Review

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2012 Pawsitive Wisdom Wall Calendar Wall calendar ReviewWe have three tuxedo cats and we buy this calendar every year. The art is bold and bright, the little bits of wisdom are endearing. We use it for all of our family scheduling -- the date "squares" are large enough to write in all of our numerous appointments and plans. After having had this calendar for several years, we know to use a soft-tipped pen for writing on it so you don't get a text shadow on the following page. It's a very sweet gift for people who love their pets.2012 Pawsitive Wisdom Wall Calendar Wall calendar Overview

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