Terry Harrison is a popular teacher and demonstrator and I don’t think it’s unfair to him to say that he has a polished act that comes across well. I don’t mean that there is anything false; simply that demonstrating is a form of theatre and, if the performance (for want of a better […]

Derived from a Parramon original this displays that publisher’s somewhat scattergun approach where pages are peppered with illustrations, giving the feeling of a cornucopia of information and encouraging a dive-in method of access, rather than a start-to-finish one. This could easily be confusing, but it’s something they’ve been doing for years and […]

Up to now, Black’s Printmaking Handbook series has concentrated more at the professional end of the market, where cost is not necessarily a consideration. While this latest volume does not compromise on artistic quality or offer cheap and cheerful solutions, it does nevertheless offer possibilities for the amateur, or less committed, worker […]

This rather original approach to teaching is aimed pretty firmly at the beginner and Ian does his best to demystify the whole process.
The book takes the form of a series of demonstrations based on a single still life composition, each section introducing a different technique. Where this scores is that you don’t […]

It’s good to find a book on painting buildings that isn’t by Richard Taylor. Not, I should say at once, that there’s anything wrong with Richard; far from it, his many books on the subject are so good that he has, until now, pretty much defined and cornered the market. […]