Art Books Reviews
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WordPress changes have affected this website. The site has been around for a long time, and it relied on some software that’s now outdated.
So, in the near future, I’ll be changing Art Books Reviews. Until then, some of the links may not work, or there may be some odd code in some of [...]
Color Choices – Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory, by Stephen Quiller is a visually inspiring book for painters, especially landscape and still life painters.
Does it actually make “color sense out of color theory”? I’m not so sure, but I’m also not sure if that matters.
Stephen Quiller has [...]
In This House – A Collection of Altered Art and Collage Techniques, by Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn, is kind of a “sleeper” of a book. It’s easy to overlook it in a sea of mixed-media art books. The book cover really doesn’t do [...]
Anthony Thieme, by Judith A. Curtis (published by the Rockport Art Association) is an inspiring tribute to one of America’s greatest landscape painters.
I bought the book partly because my mother* had studied with Thieme (as she always called him) around 1935-36 in Annisquam and Rockport, Massachusetts.
However, I also [...]
Happy Voodoo Gris Gris: Over 45 Easy-To-Make Lucky Charms & Talismans, by Mademoiselle de la Brindille / Valerie Lefebvre; text by Anne-Claire Leveque.
Sometimes I buy a book because it’s simply delightful. The art is very original, made with refreshing and simple materials, and the book just makes me [...]
