Title: Not What I expected
Product review: I had heard so much about this book from fellow artists and was excited to get it. But once I opened it up and started reading through it, I was greatly disappointed. Out of hundreds of pages, I could only use maybe 5 or 6 pages of it. The book is filled with all kinds of chemistry to make your own paints from pigments like the artists back in the day used to do. Not many of us have the finances or the time to that junk anymore. The book only had a small section about actual painting, which is what I do. The rest is full of details on how to make the supplies you would otherwise buy at artist supply stores, and many, many other forms of art techniques like lithograph, screen printing, ironwork, etc. I sent it back. Even though it was a good price, the $15 was not worth only 5 pages of usefulness to me.
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