A friend of mine bought me a handful self-published works by Julia Gfrörer a while back. I’ve found I can’t review anything while it’s new to me, I’m too centophilic in my tastes for that. So, here we are more than a year later and I still find myself turning the pages every week orContinue reading “Review: Black Light four stories by Julia Gfrörer”
Category Archives: Book Review
Sketch Every Day by Simone Grunewald
The book Sketch Every Day by Simone Grunewald is 207 numbered pages, each 24.5 cm tall and 17.5cm wide. I mention the size of the pages because it’s large enough that the drawings don’t feel super shrunk-down as they can in smaller books and it’s not so large as to be unwieldy. The book isContinue reading “Sketch Every Day by Simone Grunewald”
Book Review: Urban Sketching Step by Step, Krause Meier-Pauken
So urban sketching is a thing. It’s a thing I want to do which for me means reading way way too much about it before actually giving it a shot. As a result I’ve got a stupid number of books about it, here’s one. Urban Sketching Step by Step subtitle: Techniques for Creating Quick &Continue reading “Book Review: Urban Sketching Step by Step, Krause Meier-Pauken”
Contemporary Art Sucks
If you’ve gone to MoMa or the Tate Modern, hell, if you’ve picked up a recent copy of Art Digest or gotten by clicking about art in Wikipedia you’ve seen some modern art. Chances are you’ve seen it and, even if you didn’t say it you thought, damn that’s terrible. Oh, so and so spentContinue reading “Contemporary Art Sucks”
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective
So I guess there’s this series of books, from Gabi Campanario, the founder of Urban Sketchers, that’s all about inspiration and instruction for people who want to sketch or do already. I learned about the books from this guy, Teoh Yi Chie’s youtube channel. I picked up one of them, called Understanding Perspective: Easy TechniquesContinue reading “The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective”
