Brushes: A Handbook for Artists and Artisans | 
 enlarge | Author: Jacques Turner
Publisher: Green Editorial
Category: Book
Buy New: $179.84
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 918112
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.3
ISBN: 1558215018
Dewey Decimal Number: 703
EAN: 9781558215016
ASIN: 1558215018
Publication Date: June 28, 1992
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Product Description
divA comprehensive guide to artists, brushes, the hairs and bristles in use, styles, selection, evaluation, and care; with eighteen color plates and many line drawings.br/div
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How to Make Artist's Brushes July 16, 2007
M. Dupre (Port Orchard, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a practicing artist, I am always looking for new ways to make expressive and appealing images. I work mainly in porcelain pottery, decorated with slips and glazes. br / br /I bought this book to learn how to make brushes, brushes which will enable me to create more distinctive images. My needs are somewhat different from what the book provides, but I found enough information to assist me in experimentation with making tools for expression. br / br /The book is more geared toward industrial manufacture, but there is more than enough information and example for the individual to make implements of good quality and function. The difficulty lies in gathering materials and finding a place to work where the cat will not try to supervise... br / br /I recommend this book for all artists who like to make their own tools.
An examination of an important tool May 15, 2000
Roberts E Howard (Boston, Massachusetts)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
There are countless books written on watercolor, acrylics, oil paints and even a few on gouache and casein, but the common thread linking all of the painting media has been overlooked . . . until now. Brushes are the most common of all artist's tools, yet the vast majority of artists are woefully uninformed about how to pick out a good brush and, even what the difference is between the good, the bad and the mediocre brushes.pIn writing this book, Jacques Turner has drawn from long experience in the brush-making business to provide us with a truly useful manual on what goes into the manufacture of a good artist's brush as well as the reasons and uses for the various shapes and hairs that seem to complicate and confuse our choice.pFor me, this book has opened up possibilities that would have been remained closed. My new-found knowledge has certainly proved its worth when buying brushes. pA quick and easy read, Turner writes for the artist, not the research scholar.
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