Essays on Painting

ly technically useful but one
book I often reread for its
sound philosophy and sterling
advice. He very kindly
gave me permission to use a
few of his paintings to illustrate
“into composition”.
At the time of writing he is
still going strong, making
videos and giving demonstrations.
These artists are excellent teachers as well as producing fascinating work,
they have all produced extremely useful books:
Zoltan Szabo, Charles Sovek, Mel Stabin, Tony Couch and Stephen Quiller
have all produced useful books and videos on technique which I would
unhesitatingly recommend.
Charles Sovek, sadly no longer with us, as well as producing excellent
books, videos has produced a very useful web site which his wife Peggy
has kept going for him for the benefit of all painters:
http://www.sovek.com/index.htm
This whole website is a gift to anyone looking for guidance in Art. In
particular these two sections: Speaking of Art and Lessons from the Easel.
Frank Webb books, a useful source of composition advice in all his books.
Ian Roberts , mastering composition
Henry Rankin Poore: composition in art, this is a definitive work,
it has been reworked by Dover Books from the 1910 original under the
same title using the same text but with better known illustrations for the
most part. If you would like to see the original publication it may be read
free on line at http://tinyurl.com/z2zsn99
The full ISBN is referred to in the Bibliography at the back of the book
which is very useful.
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