 | Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $19.50 Just beautiful. Highly recommended either just to look at or to actually use to improve your painting skills. Inspiring! Essential.
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 | Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.62 Just beautiful. Highly recommended either just to look at or to actually use to try to improve your drawing skills. Essential.
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 | Oil Painting Secrets from a Master: 25th Anniversary Edition by Linda Cateura
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.49 Essential reading for any realist oil painter! The cover art is reproduced a bit too yellow, but the paintings shown in this book are superb and the writing is of a high quality too. This book is perfect for serious painters! Essential.
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 | Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present by Virgil Elliott
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $20.00 Really wonderful. Well designed and has lots of useful info I haven't read anywhere else. Essential.
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 | Techniques of the Great Masters of Art (A QED Book) by Waldemar Januszczak
Buy used from: $17.82 Highly recommended. Buy this book! It is worth the price for the images alone, especially all the detailed close ups, and the text was well above average also. Recommended to all artists who are wanting to look at different techniques. The cover is ugly, that is about my only criticism. 10/10.
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 | The Encyclopedia Of Oil Painting Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques by Jeremy Galton
Buy used from: $12.86 Highly recommended for beginners and experienced artists alike. This book gives a basic overview of techniques and each technique is illustrated either with a step by step example, or a selection of relevant artworks. Very easy to read and simply written. Contains a varied selection of paintings too which is useful, although the quality varied considerably.
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 | Velazquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown
Buy new: $33.10 / Used from: $25.95 Just wonderful, and more close-up detail images than any other book I've seen. I wish I could get books of this quality on many other artists.
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 | Rembrandt: The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering
Buy new: $31.45 / Used from: $24.12 Excellent! Great images. Although much of the text is very technical and concerned with small details. I wish I could get books of this quality on many other artists.
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 | How to Paint Like the Old Masters: Watson-Guptill 25th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Sheppard
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.00 Does just what it says on the cover! Well, near enough, it is a good start anyway. Don't be put off by the daggy cover art, there are some wonderful (if slightly dated in some cases) paintings inside and most importantly, all images are reproduced at a reasonable size so you can see properly what is happening.
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 | Drawing and Painting Animals: How to Capture the Essence of Wildlife in Your Art by Edward Aldrich
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.07 Pretty solid, but could be a lot longer; some of the sections were very brief.
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 | The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated (Artists' Handbook of Materials and Techniques) by Ralph Mayer
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $18.48 Once you've learned how to paint better, make sure you know how to paint so that your art will be around and in good condition for years to come! This book is very VERY technical (and hard going to read), but contains good information on materials as regards the longevity of your work.
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 | Techniques of the World's Great Painters (A QED Book) by Waldemar Januszczak
Buy used from: $5.75 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | The 20th Century Art Book (Phaidon) by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $16.29 A bargain if you can get a second-hand copy for just $2 as I did recently.
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 | The Cat in Art by Stefano Zuffi
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $11.95 A truly beautiful book! A real bargain too at this price, for such a big and beautifully done hardcover. I love it.
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 | 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $21.56 Lets you see a vast array of paintings all in one book - inspiring. I do wish some of the images were BIGGER though. The images were disappointing. It weighs a ton too, but then, it would!
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 | Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life by James H. Rubin
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $5.81 Recommended! A big book with lots of big images.
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 | 1000 Masterpieces of European Painting: From 1300 to 1850 (Art & Architecture) by Christiane Stukenbrock
Buy used from: $6.75 A beautiful book, and a bargain if you can get a second hand copy for just 6$ as I did. Well written and well-designed too.
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 | British Portrait Miniatures (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks) by Graham Reynolds
Buy new: $29.34 / Used from: $25.53 A beautiful book, very well designed.
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 | The Painter in Oil by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $11.30 Not essential. I was a bit disappointed with this one.
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 | John Sloan on Drawing and Painting by John Sloan
Buy used from: $7.25 All text, almost no images except the cover - be warned! Very interesting reading though I thought. Funny in places too!
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 | Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.86 I wish it had had some images to illustrate the points. Average and not essential.
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 | Hensche on Painting by John W. Robichaux
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.58 All text, almost no images except the cover - be warned! I disagreed with much of what he was saying, but still found the book worth reading.
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 | Hawthorne on Painting
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.40 All text, no images except the cover - be warned! I disagreed with much of what he was saying (much of it similar to Hensche), but still found the book worth reading.
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 | Lucian Freud (Basic Art) by Sebastian Smee
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.24 A great overview, especially for 10$. The reproductions were of a high quality and the text was pretty good too. The only thing lacking was close-ups of the work so you could see the painting technique.
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 | Gustave Courbet: 1819-1877 (Taschen Basic Art) by Fabrice Masanes
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.41 A great overview, especially for 10$. The reproductions were of a high quality and the text was pretty good too. The only thing lacking was close-ups of the work so you could see the painting technique.
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 | Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thoughts Rendered Visible (Basic Art) (Basic Art) by Marcel Paquet
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.08 A great overview, especially for 10$. The reproductions were of a high quality and the text was pretty good too. The only thing lacking was close-ups of the work so you could see the painting technique.
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 | A Trick Of The Eye: Trompe L'oeil Masterpieces by Eckhard Hollmann
Buy used from: $24.80 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | Durer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery by Jill Dunkerton
Buy new: $38.25 / Used from: $10.95 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery (National Gallery London Publications) by Jill Dunkerton
Buy new: $35.70 / Used from: $15.98 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Buy used from: $22.55 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Caravaggio by Catherine Puglisi
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $17.18 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock
Buy used from: $12.08 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Thomas Gainsborough
Buy used from: $9.69 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | Rubens: A Master in the Making (National Gallery London Publications) by David Jaffe
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $22.55 I've just bought this one, so will write a review soon. Looks good though!
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 | Late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
Buy new: $45.50 / Used from: $64.56 This one looks wonderful but I'm going to wait a bit and see if the price drops!
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 | Renoir's Women by Ann Dumas
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $13.60 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E. H. Gombrich
Buy used from: $36.72 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make It Right by Gregg Kreutz
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $10.24 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels (Watson-Guptill Famous Artists) by E. John Bullard
Buy used from: $3.60 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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