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Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports: A practical guide to drawing and painting surfaces -- from canvas and paper to textiles and woods
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports explores a wide range of drawing and painting surfaces and the unique effects they have on a variety of media.
The surface you draw or paint on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brightness to color and durability. Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports covers the drawing and painting surfaces and supports that all artists should know. With this art book, you'll learn the basics and finer points of working on:
Canvas
Paper
Panels
Textiles
Metal
Glass
Stone
You'll also learn useful tips and techniques for preparing supports to receive media, see how to work with different media on each support, and discover the most effective way to protect your finished artwork.
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports is packed with visual examples, step-by-step tutorials, and demonstrations on the practical aspects of working with graphite and colored pencils;charcoal and pastel;and watercolor, acrylic, and oilpaints. With this reference guide that no artist's library should be without, you can also learn how each support will take a medium.
The Artist Toolbox series presents practical reference guides designed for beginning artists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.
The surface you draw or paint on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brightness to color and durability. Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports covers the drawing and painting surfaces and supports that all artists should know. With this art book, you'll learn the basics and finer points of working on:
Canvas
Paper
Panels
Textiles
Metal
Glass
Stone
You'll also learn useful tips and techniques for preparing supports to receive media, see how to work with different media on each support, and discover the most effective way to protect your finished artwork.
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports is packed with visual examples, step-by-step tutorials, and demonstrations on the practical aspects of working with graphite and colored pencils;charcoal and pastel;and watercolor, acrylic, and oilpaints. With this reference guide that no artist's library should be without, you can also learn how each support will take a medium.
The Artist Toolbox series presents practical reference guides designed for beginning artists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.
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112 pages, Paperback
Published March 5, 2019
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March 9, 2019
This is a must have for a beginner to experienced artist you can find plenty of information on most surfaces for all types of media. You will get information on the history, uses and preparation of them.
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March 19, 2019
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports is a tutorial manual for visual artists covering drawing and painting on different types of surfaces including paper, textiles, and wood. There are a number of collaborators and artists who contributed to the book, so the reader gets a nice overview of materials and methods from several viewpoints. It lends the book a lot of versatility.
Released 5th March 2019 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 112 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats. The electronic version includes a handy interactive table of contents.
Since this is a book specifically about surfaces for painting and drawing, there is a lot of in-depth information on specific types of manufactured papers and which formats they can be found in. The book includes numerous close up pictures of different papers with sample coverage for different drawing materials (pastel, graphite, pencil, conté crayon, etc). The same format is used in the following chapters on canvas, woods, textiles, and alternative surfaces. It includes numerous sidebars with clear photos and explanatory text.
There are several semi-tutorials included with step-by-step process photos including a very interesting treatment using alcohol inks on ceramic tile which has me itching to try it.
This would make a good support text for the visual artist's library or a painting/drawing course. It is a useful reference, but note that there is no included index. There are some resource website listings peppered through the text, including the collaborators' websites, for further reading.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports is a tutorial manual for visual artists covering drawing and painting on different types of surfaces including paper, textiles, and wood. There are a number of collaborators and artists who contributed to the book, so the reader gets a nice overview of materials and methods from several viewpoints. It lends the book a lot of versatility.
Released 5th March 2019 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 112 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats. The electronic version includes a handy interactive table of contents.
Since this is a book specifically about surfaces for painting and drawing, there is a lot of in-depth information on specific types of manufactured papers and which formats they can be found in. The book includes numerous close up pictures of different papers with sample coverage for different drawing materials (pastel, graphite, pencil, conté crayon, etc). The same format is used in the following chapters on canvas, woods, textiles, and alternative surfaces. It includes numerous sidebars with clear photos and explanatory text.
There are several semi-tutorials included with step-by-step process photos including a very interesting treatment using alcohol inks on ceramic tile which has me itching to try it.
This would make a good support text for the visual artist's library or a painting/drawing course. It is a useful reference, but note that there is no included index. There are some resource website listings peppered through the text, including the collaborators' websites, for further reading.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
April 22, 2019
Thank you to the publisher and Netgallery for proving me with a digital ARC for my honest review. Opinions are my own.
This is a comprehensive guide of the different kinds of surfaces you can use with dry and/or wet mediums . I appreciate her inclusion of not only traditional surfaces but also alternative surfaces. She touches on different uses for fabric, including batik and silk painting. Also included is wood and metal, she also provides the steps needed to prep all these different surfaces. I also appreciate an organized table of contents, which also provides hyperlinks to skip to certain sections. Unfortunately some ebook apps make it impossible to utilize the table of contents. However, I would recommend purchasing this book in it's physical form.
This is a comprehensive guide of the different kinds of surfaces you can use with dry and/or wet mediums . I appreciate her inclusion of not only traditional surfaces but also alternative surfaces. She touches on different uses for fabric, including batik and silk painting. Also included is wood and metal, she also provides the steps needed to prep all these different surfaces. I also appreciate an organized table of contents, which also provides hyperlinks to skip to certain sections. Unfortunately some ebook apps make it impossible to utilize the table of contents. However, I would recommend purchasing this book in it's physical form.
May 18, 2019
Ever wonder why your paint sticks to this paper but not to that paper? Or maybe you’ve just picked up a new set of watercolors and you’re stuck wondering what sort of paper to get -- does the cotton actually make a difference? What about cold press and hot press? Or hardwood panel versus canvas?
Wonder no more. This book by Elizabeth Gilbert will help every artists who has wandered through the aisles of their local store, intimidated by the options. It will help you stretch your materials and give you the information you need to gather the courage to create on whatever surface you choose - from stone to metal, paper to textiles, this book covers it all.
Clearly organized and easy to read, this reference should be on every artist’s shelf. Having this information at hand will help you to be fearless in exploring new media. I highly recommend this to every artist regardless of your primary tool of choice.
Wonder no more. This book by Elizabeth Gilbert will help every artists who has wandered through the aisles of their local store, intimidated by the options. It will help you stretch your materials and give you the information you need to gather the courage to create on whatever surface you choose - from stone to metal, paper to textiles, this book covers it all.
Clearly organized and easy to read, this reference should be on every artist’s shelf. Having this information at hand will help you to be fearless in exploring new media. I highly recommend this to every artist regardless of your primary tool of choice.
May 8, 2019
I love this book! It is full of information, techniques, ideas and things to try.... Surfaces such as wood, glass, metal, ceramics, and stone as well as all types of papers are all discussed. Add in paints, pastels, glazes, anything you might think to use along with techniques for achieving different results. I can't wait to try some of them! This will definitely be a well used addition to my shelf of art books! Highly recommend!
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