Brand New!! Your Novel Favourite Fine Art Books

What are your favourite fine art books from the final iii years?  

Are they amend or worse than previous favourite fine art books and, if so, why?  

PLUS Do you lot right away read ebooks nearly art?

Popular fine art books according to Good Reads

Three years ago, inwards Jan 2009, I started the twelvemonth past times writing on this weblog nearly what was happening to fine art books together with the publishing industry.

At the fourth dimension it was real apparent that a shift was happening inside the mass industry:

• the impact of digital applied scientific discipline would hateful that books inwards the time to come would live on real different
• that inwards plough meant at that topographic point were major implications for the toll structures inside publishing and distribution channels for selling books

It equally good seemed equally if at that topographic point was never a amend fourth dimension for artists to cause got to a greater extent than command over content together with production - if they were hence minded.  (Since hence I've instituted the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Award at the destination of each tyear for The Best Book past times an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon)

This led to call for people nearly fine art books together with nosotros all had a major give-and-take  on this weblog nearly what was happening amongst fine art education books together with the woeful agency the content of some fine art education books had been downsized together with downgraded.

Out of this came a post Your favourite fine art books - what you lot like.

It summarised your views into iii categories

• your favourite fine art books - ones which you've constitute real helpful
• why you lot purchase together with read fine art books
• your views equally to the characteristics of a practiced fine art book

I equally good listed all those books which you lot liked together with constitute valuable.

Out of this I built a website.  I approximate I was wanting to brand certain that the practiced fine art books didn't acquire buried!   However I shouldn't cause got worried as Artists' Favourite Art Books has remained perennially pop amongst readers of this weblog together with visitors to my 'resources for artists' websites for the final iii years.

I'm right away thinking it's fourth dimension to do an update together with pose what are our favourite fine art books of the final iii years.  However. this fourth dimension around I'd similar to propose some categories equally a prompt.  I's equally good similar to inquire you lot nearly ebooks for art.

What are your NEW favourite fine art books - published inwards the final iii years?

Have a recollect nearly NEW fine art books (published inwards 2010, 2011 or 2012) 

Which fine art books cause got you lot most enjoyed reading and/or learning from?

Which cause got acquire NEW favourite fine art books?  

Are they amend or worse than your favourite fine art books from the past? Why do you lot recollect that is?

Here's some prompts to acquire you lot started.  You don't cause got to stick to these but you lot may detect them helpful inwards reminding you lot nearly those books which cause got acquire your NEW FAVOURITES.

Please portion your NEW FAVOURITES amongst us all via the comments to this weblog post

DRAWING

Which is your FAVOURITE BOOK about:

• sketching
• drawing
• how to depict for beginners
• how to depict for advanced artists
• how to depict people
• how to depict landscapes together with buildings
• how to depict (whatever)

PAINTING

Which is your FAVOURITE BOOK about:

• painting
• oil painting
• acrylic painting
• watercolour painting
• painting realism
• painting amongst imagination
• how to pigment (whatever)

ART BASICS

• colour
• composition together with design
• artistic practise (whatever)

ARTISTS & ART HISTORY

Which is your favourite mass about

• an artist
• an fine art movement
• specific dependent plain matter (whatever)
• an exhibition

ART EBOOKS

• Which is your favourite fine art ebook?

I'm equally good peculiarly interested to listen whether or non you're a convert to ebooks and, if so, which variety of books travel best equally ebooks.

At the destination of the calendar month I'll do a circular upwards together with nosotros tin encounter which of the books published inwards the final iii years cause got had the most impact.

MAM POLL (January 2013) - Do you lot read fine art ebooks?

I've equally good ready the Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Poll for Jan amongst a inquiry which is a combat easier to respond - the inquiry is Do you lot read fine art ebooks?

I'd dear to know which books travel best on the Kindle, Nook or iPad.

The possible answers - together with you lot tin click to a greater extent than than ane are:

• Yes - I read fine art education ebooks
• Yes - I read fine art history ebooks
• Yes - I read fine art line of piece of job organisation ebooks
• No - I don't cause got an ebook reader
• No - at that topographic point are none I desire to buy
• No - I prefer existent fine art books
• I don't read whatever variety of fine art book

The poll is inwards the correct paw column - only below the subscription department - together with closes on 31st January.  There'll live on a post after that twenty-four hours to tell what the results are

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