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Book Review: Manabeshima Island Japan: One Island, Two Months, One Minicar,...
Florent Chavouet's new travelogue artbook Manabeshima Island Japan is just as charming as his first, Tokyo on Foot. Chavouet is back in Japan and this time on this particular lesser known island called...
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Book Review: Artist's Sketchbook: Exercises and Techniques for Sketching on...
Artist's Sketchbook feels very much like a sequel to Cathy Johnson's earlier book Artist's Journal Workshop. This 128-page paperback is sort of like an introduction to sketching. It's not a structured...
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Book Review: Paris Je T'aime by Lapin
Paris Je T'aime is one of several sketchbooks from Lapin in 2016. The other two are Modernisme Beyond Gaudà and Barcelona - An Urban Sketchbook which I will review when they come out eventually.Lapin...
View ArticleBrenda Swenson review of Stillman & Birn sketchbooks
Check out Brenda Swenson's beautiful art in her Stillman & Birn sketchbooks.Tags:Â brenda swensonsketchbooksstillman and birn
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Book Review: Urban Sketching Old San Juan - Puerto Rico
Here's another delightful sketchbook by Mike Daikubara. He likes to self publish these little sketchbooks of his trips, and there's also one just on hotel room sketches. This time, he travels to Old...
View ArticleMattias Adolfsson Sketchbook 31
Check out Mattias Adolfsson's Sketchbook #31.His printed sketchbooks are:The Third in LineThe Second in LineMattias UnfilteredThe First in LineTags:Â mattias adolfssonvideosketchbooks
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Book Review: Sketching Times 2: Inspiration from Artists Sketch Collection
Basheer Graphic Books is back with another volume of Sketching Times. The first volume was published in 2015. The books are based on the Chinese sketchbooks of the same name, just that Basheer has...
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Book Review: Barcelona: Five Routes for Sketching Travelers
This is a rather niche book targeted at sketchers in Barcelona. I guess it's another book to ride on the popularity of the urban sketching movement. The book presents 5 routes in Barcelona that has...
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Book Review: Art Before Breakfast: The Workbook
Here's the companion workbook for Danny Gregory's earlier book Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are. That book provides a very basic guide to drawing and...
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Book Review: Keeping Sketchbooks
In recent years, I've seen so many books on sketchbooks and sketching being published. And here's another that talks about sketchbooks.Keeping Sketchbooks explores why people keep sketchbooks and the...
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Book Review: Barcelona Original: The Sketching Lover’s Companion
Barcelona Original is actually the English edition of Barcelona M'Inspira which was published in 2013. Compared to the Spanish edition, there are some new sketches features, such as those drawn in...
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Book Review: CIao Firenze! by Alvin Mark Tan
Ciao Firenze! is the second sketchbook of Alvin Mark Tan. Alvin's a friend of mine from the Urban Sketchers Singapore group.He's from Singapore but sold all his stuff here in order to study art in...
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Book Review: Tajalapiz Uno sketchbook
Today, I looked at my shelf and saw a book I could not recognise and also can't remember who sent it to me. If it's you, thank you very much.This is a 108-page square format paperback sketchbook...
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Book Review: Nepal The Art Book by Bernat Moreno
Nepal The Art Book is a visual travelogue hand drawn by Bernat Moreno. He contacted me in late 2015 to let me know of his Kickstarter campaign to produce this book. I backed his Kickstarter campaign...
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Book Review: The Line Art Challenge: 100 sketches for 100 days
This book features some artists who enjoy challenging themselves to improve. The concept was to create a line art each day. It started out as a fun exercise and someone thought why not make it a book....
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Book Review: Sketchy Stories: The Sketchbook Art of Kerby Rosanes
Here's a wonderful sketchbook by Kerby Rosanes, an illustrator based in Manila, Philippines. He's known in the doodling community for his cute and intricate drawings. This 128-page sketchbook is...
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Book Review: Sketching from the Imagination: Characters
This is the fourth book in the Sketching from the Imagination series. The earlier three were on creative drawing, fantasy and sci-fi.All the good things that I've said for the other books apply here as...
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Book Review: The Deluxe Collection Part 2 by Lorenzo Etherington
Special thanks to Lorenzo Etherington for sending me this humongous 600-page sketchbook. The sketchbook was originally put on Kickstarter and the campaign was successful with 174 backers.The book a 8.5...
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Book Review: Les Carnets d'Alger 2 by Catherine Rossi
Thanks to Mehdi, a viewer of my Youtube channel, for giving me this book. Alger is the French name for Algiers, the capital of Algeria, North Africa.This hardcover watercolour sketchbook features...
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Book Review: Manchester Sketchbook
Here's the sketchbook that I bought in Manchester during last year's Urban Sketchers Symposium. It's a wonderful sketchbook with beautiful sketches by the urban sketchers. It really brings back...
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