Your Novel Favourite Fine Art Books

What are your favourite fine art books from the final 3 years?  

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

PLUS Do y'all instantly read ebooks nigh art?

Popular fine art books according to Good Reads

Three years ago, inward Jan 2009, I started the twelvemonth yesteryear writing on this weblog nigh what was happening to fine art books as well as the publishing industry.

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

• the impact of digital technology scientific discipline would hateful that books inward the hereafter would hold upwardly real different
• that inward plow meant in that place were major implications for the toll structures inside publishing and distribution channels for selling books

It likewise seemed every bit if in that place was never a improve fourth dimension for artists to accept to a greater extent than command over content as well as production - if they were thus minded.  (Since as well as then I've instituted the Making H5N1 Mark Award at the halt of each tyear for The Best Book yesteryear an Art Blogger Blue Ribbon)

This led to bespeak people nigh fine art books as well as nosotros all had a major give-and-take  on this weblog nigh what was happening alongside fine art didactics books as well as the woeful agency the content of some fine art didactics books had been downsized as well as downgraded.

Out of this came a post Your favourite fine art books - what y'all like.

It summarised your views into 3 categories

• your favourite fine art books - ones which you've constitute real helpful
• why y'all purchase as well as read fine art books
• your views every bit to the characteristics of a practiced fine art book

I likewise listed all those books which y'all liked as well as constitute valuable.

Out of this I built a website.  I justice I was wanting to brand certain that the practiced fine art books didn't acquire buried!   However I shouldn't guide keep worried as Artists' Favourite Art Books has remained perennially pop alongside readers of this weblog as well as visitors to my 'resources for artists' websites for the final 3 years.

I'm instantly thinking it's fourth dimension to create an update as well as pose what are our favourite fine art books of the final 3 years.  However. this fourth dimension around I'd similar to propose some categories every bit a prompt.  I's likewise similar to enquire y'all nigh ebooks for art.

What are your NEW favourite fine art books - published inward the final 3 years?

Have a retrieve nigh NEW fine art books (published inward 2010, 2011 or 2012) 

Which fine art books guide keep y'all most enjoyed reading and/or learning from?

Which guide keep travel yesteryear away NEW favourite fine art books?  

Are they improve or worse than your favourite fine art books from the past? Why create y'all retrieve that is?

Here's some prompts to acquire y'all started.  You don't guide keep to stick to these but y'all may notice them helpful inward reminding y'all nigh those books which guide keep travel yesteryear away your NEW FAVOURITES.

Please percentage your NEW FAVOURITES alongside 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 as well as buildings
• how to depict (whatever)

PAINTING

Which is your FAVOURITE BOOK about:

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

ART BASICS

• colour
• composition as well as design
• artistic practise (whatever)

ARTISTS & ART HISTORY

Which is your favourite majority about

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

ART EBOOKS

• Which is your favourite fine art ebook?

I'm likewise peculiarly interested to listen whether or non you're a convert to ebooks and, if so, which kind of books operate best every bit ebooks.

At the halt of the calendar month I'll create a circular upwardly as well as nosotros tin encounter which of the books published inward the final 3 years guide keep had the most impact.

MAM POLL (January 2013) - Do y'all read fine art ebooks?

I've likewise fix the Making H5N1 Mark Poll for Jan alongside a interrogation which is a flake easier to respond - the interrogation is Do y'all read fine art ebooks?

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

The possible answers - as well as y'all tin click to a greater extent than than ane are:

• Yes - I read fine art didactics ebooks
• Yes - I read fine art history ebooks
• Yes - I read fine art line of piece of job organisation ebooks
• No - I don't guide keep an ebook reader
• No - in that place are none I desire to buy
• No - I prefer existent fine art books
• I don't read whatsoever kind of fine art book

The poll is inward the correct mitt column - simply below the subscription department - as well as closes on 31st January.  There'll hold upwardly a post afterwards that hateful solar daytime to state what the results are

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