I really love this art book series! As I’ve noted before, in the review of one of the other books in the series, there is no shortage of ‘how to’ art books.  I’ve bought more than a handful myself, and rarely do I come away actually feeling enlightened in regards to a new technique or Continue reading

“The art essay is at once not about the art and all about the art – the glance at the piece of art evolves into a meditation on something else entirely” writes editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese in her introduction to the collection Art Essays. This makes this volume a collection of essays very loosely themed around art.  Continue reading

Not too long ago I reviewed a different book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series and I was very impressed with it. I am equally impressed with this volume. Artist and author Katie Woodward focuses on light in this volume with an emphasis on ‘portraying light effects’ as the subtitle indicates. In her introduction, Woodward Continue reading

It seems like there’s no shortage of books about art … ‘how to’ and ‘help’ books … and I’ve read a few of them over the years and I stumbled on this Urban Sketching Handbook series quite by accident. But a lucky accident it was. I was so impressed with this book, as well as Continue reading

Craig Foster is a diver who, with Ross Frylinck, dives regularly off the coast of South Africa without wetsuits or oxygen tanks.  His experiences with the beautiful underwater forests and creatures that dwell there led to the remarkable and much-talk-about film My Octopus Teacher. Building on the success and interest in My Octopus Teacher, Foster and Frylinck Continue reading