I have been given a copy of the 1980 hard copy and it is on the top of my reading list at last.
Book Review using hreview
Paint, A Manual of Pictorial Thought & Practical Advice
I am reading it today
A messy rambling book both in its images, text and layout, but interesting and inspiring in that it makes it all look doable.
This is from the Amazon site, and puts it well:
From Library Journal:
Most art manuals tend toward large, impressive photos with little text. This one is packed with 1500 illustrations and an unusually rich text. Camp’s style tends to personal observation, autobiographical touches, references to art history, and fresh inspiration. A teacher at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and a member of the Royal Academy of Arts, he believes in copying from masters but avoiding academic dryness. Libraries should also consider his previous, excellent work Draw: How To Master the Art (DK, 1994).
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
My rating: stars
Brian Grimwood – illustrations – book & chat
I am back from the workshop and had a bit of a browse of the bookstore. The little “Coffee With… series caught my eye… because of the illustrations on the front. (Coffee with Michael Angelo, by James Hall, fun!)
On Amazon (click the image) you can see links to the others in the series, I particularly like the Mozart one, interesting use of colour. The artist is Brian Grimwood, I have just been exploring his website with delight. Ok, it is commercial art, but it is art. The image that follows is a good example of artistic exploration. I am in tune with that right now having been doing it solidly for three days. My hunch is that these illustrations are all digital, and he is a lovely digital sketcher!
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Art Books 2007
Here are the books I blogged in 2007 on Thousand Sketches.
I am reading a few at the moment so watch the Book Category In this moment…
Albers Colour Theory
The picture to the left, originally made by Josef Albers is a great example of how color is deceiving. We need to train our eyes to understand what is happening. It is color interacting. The picture looks like four different colored squares with a transparent folded square on top of them. The transparency is actually just different blocks of color that are just slightly different then their surroundings, placed on top of the squares. Ultimately you have to remember that color is absolute and that it is always relative to its sorroundings.
Here is the book on Amazon:
Interaction of Color
Quote from an Amazon review:
the original had 150 color plates this version has only 8 in mine. The visual phenomena are so complex that without the plates you can’t possibly accurately understand what the book is talking about.
Now I want this hardback, but it’s rarity makes it over the top expensive.
Interaction of Color: Text of the Original Edition With Revised Plate Section (Hardcover)
Perhaps the solution is the paperback plus the CD ROM.
Or the book by his teacher: The Elements of Color (Hardcover) by Johannes Itten After reading this review, I don’t think so, it sounds dated and wrong:
Unless the reader is studious and very serious about trying to unearth the information contained in this book, he or she is much better served by studing Albers or others. Too bad there is no editing, no index, and no glossary.
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What does Albers art look like:
All I could find but interesting IMO.
Becoming a Creativity Coach
I am enjoying Eric Maisel’s books, and have just downloaded his “Becoming a Creativity Coach” an online PDF. I’ll add more to this post once I have read it, but it is bound to be useful.
Step one: becoming my own coach!
You can buy and download it here from Eric’s page.
Thousand Sketches – Interview with Eric Maisel
I have been busy on my other blog, Thousand Sketches. Sketching of course, have a look at the thumbnails for last month for example: April 2007 Sketches
But I am dropping into this blog to mention my interview with creativity coach and author Eric Maisel. We had a good discussion about positive thinking & embracing the shadow in the context of his Ten Zen Seconds blog tour.
Kurt is up in heaven now.
Scoop: Vonnegut Dies Without a Country or Religion:
As it happens on that very day 13 April, I bought two Vonnegut books on Amazon, they are on their way, but I only just heard he died.
The sketch is from the wonderful: Writer’s Mugs
And here are some quotes from: Quotations Page
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Assertive Outreach by Peter Ryan and Steve Morgan
Assertive Outreach: A Strengths Approach to Policy and Practice by Peter Ryan and Steve Morgan
This book gives a comprehensive, evidence-based account of assertive outreach from a strengths perspective. It emphasizes developing a collaborative approach to working with the service user, which stresses the achievement of the service users own aspirations, and building upon the service users own strengths and resources. The book provides a comprehensive, authoritative approach to the subject, that combines an overview of the policy and practice issues. It makes use of extensive case study material to illustrate individual and team circumstances.
My last post pointed to the Author, Steve Morgan’s website. The blurb above sounds excellent, and it seems there is a strong focus on practice-based evidence and I am now more curious about the “strenghts” approach which I have seen introduced top down with not much success.
Kim Hill Podcasts
Kim Hill talks to author, Helen O’Neill, of a book on Florence Broadhurst. I found it a great podcast and am delighted so much of Radio NZ is being podcasted. Posting this one here because I really do like the wallpaper she designed, and want to slap a strip of it up from
Signature.
