Title: More of an attaboy for the author than good info for the new artist
Product review: I was looking for a book that demonstrated BASICS on painting techniques such as palette selection, brush loading and stroke techniques. All he showed or described were single photos and one short paragraph on the topics I wanted. This was certainly not sufficient to launch me confidently into the area of landscape art. Painting and drawing skills are acquired by practice, and no book will make you an instant success, but the book was boldly listed as BASICS and one would think that it should thoroughly demonstrate or describe very basic methods and techniques. This book was a big disappointment. The topics and techniques discussed are repeated in other Yerry Yarnell books. That makes it seem that his series is just a cut and paste reprint of a basic framework where he substitutes landscapes in one book with sea and water in another. I won't buy another Yarnell book. There are others that cover what I need much better.
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