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Title: New Artist's Handbook by Ray Smith ISBN: 0-7894-9336-5 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great resource for artists
Comment: This book is an important resource for artists. Ray Smith has a complete knowledge of art materials, and he gives a complete and detailed description of each material and how they are used. It covers a wide range of art materials including paints, grounds, pencils, inks, printing equipment, cereamic tiles, stained glass, and so forth. Also included is information on color, perspective, framing, photography, and exhibiting your work. Basically it's a complete guide to the 2D mediums of art. if you're interesting in 3D arts such as sculpture or pottery, you're not in luck. Those fields aren't covered.
For me, it's interesting to just look through this book and examine the wide range of techniques and materials presented in it. You can find a lot of new ideas to try out. Even if you're an experienced artist, I think you can find something new that you will be excited to try. Check it out. It's worth it.
Rating: 3
Summary: ADDIT TO LAST REVIEW I SUBMITTED
Comment: When recommending an alternative text in the last review I wrote of this book, I suggested Robert Gottsegan's book. His real name is Mark David Gottsegan. Apologies for this mistake.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good but contains some bad advice
Comment: I agree with the preceding reviewers but must add I found this book to be so general as to require supplementation by other books such as those by Ralph Mayer(somewhat out of date but still useful) or Robert Gottsegan. Ray Smith does offer some very dubious advice in parts of the text eg. he suggests that after priming your support with the traditional lead primer, you should sand it to smooth the surface. This is a TERRIBLE suggestion. Lead is very dangerous when inhaled--it only becomes inhalable when sanded or when used in pigment form. Sanding it is an absolute no-no.Ralph Mayer is a chemist, so his advice on safety issues is a lot more reliable than Mr Smith's. Of all three books, that by Gottsegan is probably the one I would recommend most as it is far more up to date than Smith's or Mayer's.
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Title: The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer, Steven Sheehan ISBN: 0670837016 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Artist's Manual: A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques by Angela Gair ISBN: 0811813770 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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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 (Great Britain) ISBN: 0789451514 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake ISBN: 0486417263 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Mosque by David Macaulay ISBN: 0618240349 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 27 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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