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I add to my now considerable collection of art book twice a year at the start and end of the year ,
I recently purchased four books
1: Milind Mulick watercolour landscapes step by step ... This book is only 80 pages long but is a joy to read and demonstrates Milinds beautifully direct approach to watercolour , I've watched him paint before and he creates magic with his wet in wet beautifully coloured paintings .
He explains beautifully his way of working and does not bog one down with a load of detailed instruction he also shows how he interprets and paints from a photo the book comes with DVD demo also .
2: Watercolour painting by Tom Hoffmann .... I heard about this book from several working artists and I'm very impressed by the content ,Tom instead of showing demos and excecises uses an inquiry based approach to painting and he asks artists to answer key questions before they apply paint to paper .
It's a fascinating book and got me thinking more deeply about the process of painting and picture making .
I still await two more books ... The joy of watercolour and John Yardley a personal view .. I bought the Trevor Chamberlin a personal view years ago and this series of books is superb so I'm looking forward to threading the John Yardley one as I think he was a fabulous artist .
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Thanks for this Dermot. I bought the David and Charles Atelier series years ago and still treasure them. I only wish there were more books like this on living artists but, regrettably, books solely featuring an artists work and do not fall into the instructional 'how to do it' category are as rare as responsible cat owners who take their pets out for a walk on a lead.
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I recently purchased 'Brian Ryder - Painting Atmospheric Landscapes - Norfolk and Beyond' because I have some of his oil painting DVDs. The book has a simple brief biography and is then full of superb plates of Brian's landscapes. It is great value as a demonstration of what can be achieved...even if it has taken Brian a lifetime to do it. I'm sure I will be leafing through it for years to come.
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I think I'm going to leave this one to Dawn - it's not entirely straightforward. Frankly, the comment does give me the impression that it was made just in order to put this online English courses link on the forum again; on the other hand, Leesa has made some contributions that have point to them, and I'm not sure that just posting a link is really spam. There was another contributor who made fairly vapid posts principally in order to advertise her business - and we did get fed up with that. If you have something to say, that may be one thing - but if the comment doesn't actually do anything at all to add to the discussion, and is just a sandwich-board for personal advertising, sooner or later posts are going to be removed.
But I reserve this one for Dawn, this site's Chief Cook and Bottle-Washer.
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Ah, controversy - I'm highly impressed by Fred Cuming, and have been ever since I first encountered him a good few years ago. I have wondered how some of his paintings will fare in the long term, because of the incredible thickness of the paint, but for sheer intensity of colour - and I'm not primarily what you'd call a 'colourist' - I'm very drawn to his work and will look out for the book Roeland mentions.
I do find - and this isn't a back-handed swipe at Adele - that the older I get, the more open I am to other painters whom I might have dismissed before; one such is Howard Hodgkin - Twombly is another (spelling of name may be wrong): I could see nothing in them at all some years ago; I wouldn't say I'm a huge devotee now, but I find myself groping uncertainly towards comprehension. Just recently, I saw (only on screen, unfortunately) some of R B Kitaj's work, which was so viciously assailed by Brian Sewell, but praised by Robert Hughes, who was a much better and more humane critic - often downright, but never purely spiteful.
Still - we all see things our own way, and painters may be among those who are most prejudiced (this is another 'not a back-handed swipe at Adele'!): my landlady, now 87, remembers participating in a demonstration against Sir Alfred Munnings, when he launched a semi-drunken tirade against Picasso at a dinner with Winston Churchill; she was an art student at the time - and also remembers the patient police officer telling her to 'go home and stop being silly'. She should have written a book of her own....
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