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RECENT BOOKS PURCHASED

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scheidsara_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 03:58:48 PST

1.Techniques of the Great Masters of Art
Purchased at Borders for about $13.00
Techniques of the Great Masters of Art by Waldemar Januszczak - softcover 540 pages, Quantum Books
Can be purchased used on Amazon.com

An in-depth analysis of the works of 110 of the world's most important artists, from the early Renaissance to the present, features more than four hundred illustrations and a text that explains how each developed his or her own style and techniques.

2.Sharkabet
written and illustrated by Ray Troll
Great color pencil/pastel techniques examples
http://www.trollart.com/aboutray.html
Troll's colorful, eye-popping images draw readers in, while catchy, fun factoids are offered for the different fascinating shark varieties. In back is an info-packed field guide featuring everything you didn't know about these weird and wonderful creatures.

About the Author
Ray Troll is an acknowledged artist laureate of the deep and fishy. While he paints fish both common and exotic, he is particularly interested in the strange and curious sea creatures of the past. A resident of Ketchikan, Alaska, Troll has traveled the

the book's greatest asset is the brilliant art bursting from the pages like jewels. Often whimsical (nurse sharks are shown gliding about a patient in a hospital bed) or very dramatic (an extinct megalodon attacking a pod of prehistoric cetaceans), the images glow on the pages like mixed-media gems.

3.THE LEGEND of the WINDIGO
Retold BY Gayle Ross
Paintings by Murv Jacob

Great examples of texture

http://www.lakesok.com/lakesok/lakesoktk/LTKV0413.htm

4.Non-sense
Title: Edward Lear's Nonsense
by Edward Lear, James Wines

Comment: Though Wines is renowned for architecture, his illustrations for Lear are emphatic of his talents as an artist; these are a combination of the beautiful line and sensuous watercolor qualities of Arthur Rackham crossed with the avant-garde and perverse sensibilities of Edward Gorey. An intriguing perspective on the poems of Edward Lear. Lear himself must have applauded if he'd had the chance.

Sara 

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