 | Language of the Body: Drawings by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon by John Elderfield
Buy used from: $450.00 Amazing book! Buy it if you can.
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 | Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $28.52 see book review for a complete description
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 | Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.01 A new and welcome addition to the market. It shows the work of historical and contemporary draftsmen and discusses ways to develop your technique.
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 | The Hand/Die Hand/La Main: Sketch Book/Skizzenheft/Carnet De Dessins
Buy used from: $66.03 Focusing on the hand, this book contains beautiful illustrations (paintings and drawings) from renaissance and contemporary works. A wonderful way to see how other artists have represented hands in their works.
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 | Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings by Paul Bowles
Buy new: $101.25 / Used from: $143.53 This book is full of full color and stunning still life paintings and figurative work.
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 | Claudio Bravo And Morocco by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Buy used from: $73.00 More from Claudio. Most of the images are included in the larger work listed above.
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 | Pieter Claesz 1596/97 - 1660 by Pieter Biesboer
Buy used from: $218.25 Simply beautiful.
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 | Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course by Gerald M. Ackerman
Buy used from: $177.14 The real French Academy. Sadly, this too is now hard to find but it illustrates the steps and reproduces the plates used to teach drawing when drawing was a fundamental part of artistic training.
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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: $11.10 A must have for still life painters. Kreutz trained with David Leffel and uses his talents to the fullest.
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 | Painting Sumptuous Vegetables, Fruits & Flowers in Oil by Joe Anna Amett
Buy used from: $84.90 Beautiful still life book from a talented artist and wonderful person.
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 | Oil Painting Secrets from a Master: 25th Anniversary Edition by Linda Cateura
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.75 Well beyond the average. This shows a master's work and explains things rarely discussed in painting books.
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 | On Becoming a Painter by Robert A. Johnson
Buy new: $65.00 / Used from: $50.00 A beautiful book with some wonderful insight
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 | The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition by Anthony Ryder
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.99 A superb drawing method that will improve your work. It's not for those that want to quickly draw the figure, this is a more academic method, and while slow, it's designed to produce great subtlety in your drawings.
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 | Still Life: A History by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
Buy used from: $1,281.85 A wonderful overview and survey of still life painting. Well worth it.
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 | Perspective for Artists (Dover Art Instruction and Reference Books) by Rex Vicat Cole
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $2.44 One of best books on perspective ever published
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