Taking the Leap
7/16/10 •
Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist, by Cay Lang, is a good and important book for anyone who’s serious about a career in art. It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you look at the broad field of art and art careers. (I tried to keep the list short at my Squidoo [...]
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Expressive Oil Painting: An Open Air Approach to Creative Landscapes
3/30/10 •
Expressive Oil Painting: An Open Air Approach to Creative Landscapes, by George Allen Durkee is a good, instructional book for oil painters. Artists working with acrylics will learn great tips from it as well. From the start, I was impressed. Instead of using the usual photos of art supplies as he talks about what he [...]
Collage, Assemblage, and Altered Art – review
3/25/10 •
Collage, Assemblage and Altered Art by Diane Maurer-Mathison is a good book for a school, the library of an art organization or club, or a public library. It’s a thorough book about collage and assemblage, and it demonstrates altered art as well. Though readers may not be able to find the exact items used in [...]
Caffeine for the Creative Mind
3/23/10 •
Caffeine for the Creative Mind is on the very short list of books I rate with the full five stars. It’s that good. Subtitled “250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain,” this book offers some tremendously fun and stimulating exercises to get you un-stuck as an artist… in minutes. This book suggests things I’ve never [...]
The Art Model’s Handbook
10/07/09 •
The Art Model’s Handbook, by Andrew Cahner is one of those books I look at and exclaim, “Why didn’t anyone write a book like this before..?” If you use artist’s models in your studio, work as an artist’s model, or have ever thought of working as an artist’s model*… you need to own a copy [...]
The ABCs of Art
6/30/09 •
Herman the Jester and the ABC’s of Art, by Rafael Filion, is a tremendously useful book for teaching art theory to very young children. It’s ideal as the basis of a daily or weekly art lesson. It’s also a great preparation for taking young children to art museums. In fact, it’s one of the best [...]
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