The New Artist's Manual: The Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques

This book is a great reference for any artist or anyone who wants to take art classes and do not know anything about any media. It provides great background information for each media: charcoal, pencil, watercolor, oil, acrylic, etc...great visuals of art materials, samples of pencil and pen lines and complete samples of artwork created with each media. This is a must have in your home library whether you are an experience artist or if you just have started creating art. I borrowed this book and it was never returned! This book is worth having for reference that I bought a second copy and this time is not leaving my home library :)

I have lots of art books, this book covers so many aspects of various mediums and answers questions I couldn't find the answers to anywhere else. Love it.

Beautiful book. Covers so many techniques for a quick answer. Great reference for both beginners and advanced artists.

This is a great book for beginning artists. It takes you through all the steps of painting using very logical and well thought out methods.

If you're an artist seeking the basics of how to set up a studio and use professional methods in a range of media, THE NEW ARTIST'S MANUAL: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO PAINTING AND DRAWING MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES is for you. There are so many new materials on the market today that there's an ever-present need for a comprehensive coverage of them: THE NEW ARTIST'S MANUAL provides such depth in surveying paper and paint choices, pros and cons of controlling output under different conditions, experimenting with materials and textures, and much more. An outstanding guide aspiring artists will want to look it - and it's packed with color examples on every page.