Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette (Pocket Palette Series) [Hardcover]

Mark Taylor (Author), David Taylor (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891347577
• ISBN-13: 978-0891347576
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,238,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent examples and wonderful illustrations, April 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette (Pocket Palette Series) (Hardcover)

The Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette is filled with wonderful techniques to create hundreds of effects and textures. I would not know how to create hair, skin, wood, metallic surfaces, stone or highlights with my airbrush without this book.

You will need to have some knowledge about color palettes and airbrushes to fully understand the techniques descibed in the book.

The book also contains several pieces of completed artwork. The techniques they used to create the paintings are described with the corresponding painting.

I have enjoyed this book since the day I bought it.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book is bad book for a beginner., January 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette (Pocket Palette Series) (Hardcover)

As a beginner I found this book to be inadequate for my needs. There are 63 pages of nicely spiral bound(book lies flat) examples of various effects. That is to say... 63 pages of coloful rectangles with some comments about how to achieve a particular effect. It's sort of like reading the ingredients for a recipe but not telling you how to mix the ingredients or cook it.

I imagine that this book has some use to an experienced airbrusher but I suspect that once you have the experience the book is not very useful and is merely a nice 63 page of pretty rectangles.

This was not a good book for me.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best technical book on airbrush textures, December 18, 2010

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Mary Leib "aka "Kathy"" (Bristol, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Airbrush Artist's Pocket Palette (Pocket Palette Series) (Hardcover)

While this is not a beginners book,it is one of the best, if not THE best technical book for the creation of textures and effects....
I have had it in my art library for years and it has been my most useful book. I still keep it at arms length in my studio.