Much more than just another guide to artists’ materials, The Painter’s Handbook is an amazingly useful resource, with information on everything from the canvas up: the canvas itself, plus paper, sizes and grounds, pigments and binders, solvents and thinners, varnishes and preservatives. Dozens of step-by-step recipes for make-it-yourself paints, pastels, varnishes, gessoes, sizes, supports, and equipment take this indispensable guide way beyond the competition. Authoritatively written by Mark David Gottsegen, chair of the federal government’s ASTM committee on artist’s materials, the revised Painter’s Handbook considers the enormous changes in the art-materials world since the first edition was published in 1993. New materials, new health issues, new information on outmoded and even harmful supplies and practices mean that every painter needs a copy of The Painter’s Handbook.
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Mark David Gottsegen, in his role as chairman of the ASTM subcommittee on artists’ paints and related materials, helps develop ASTM standards for art materials. A professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he lives in Climax, NC.
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
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A good reference,
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This review is from: The Painter's Handbook (Practical Art Books) (Paperback)
As a painter, this book has been a reliable and useful reference for just about everything to do with oil painting along with recipes for a large variety of paints and means of methods of framing, matting, crating, varnishing, and other practical matters. This said, painters not primarily interested in oil, might be able to find a book better suited to them elsewhere, but, for oil painters, this book is an asset.A final note, the person who claimed this book to be too dry and without illustrations should be disregarded, this is not a picture book for the entertainment of children but a comprehensive handbook for serious painters.
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Best painting materials reference book I've ever used,
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I recommend this book enthusiastically to my students as a concise, clear, easy-to-use and thorough reference on painting materials, especially oil painting (though it does cover other painting media). There hasn't been a technical question about materials that it hasn't answered for me, and the information provided has also led me to experiment with new materials. It is not a "how-to" book on painting and there are no pictures or anecdotes, but it is oriented towards serious students and professionals. For me, "The Joy of Cooking" of painting -- wouldn't be without it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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the premier guide,
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This review is from: Painter's Handbook: Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
The Painter's Handbook is without doubt to artists' painting materials. Gottsegen's knowledge and expertise in the field allow for an in-depth understanding of the tools of the fine artist, and his book dispels so many of the myths surrounding art materials that have been perpetuated in other resources.
-Mark Golden, CEO, Golden Artist Colors, Inc.
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This chapter covers the auxiliary materials you will use when painting-the tools that do not become part of the painting itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
health label, acrylic dispersion paints, acrylic dispersion grounds, acrylic dispersion medium, acrylic dispersion primer, acrylic solution paints, gum turps, handling dry pigments, pure egg tempera, original thinner, slaked lime putty, screen lath, linseed stand oil, dust toxicity, fresco buono, matted work, solution varnishes, glue gesso, picture protection, acrylic solutions, denatured ethyl alcohol, wall scraper, odorless mineral spirits, dispersion binders, painting coat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
List of Suppliers, Material Safety Data Sheet, Kremer Pigments, Red Red Red, Inorganic Inorganic Inorganic, Organic Organic Organic, Yellow Yellow Yellow Yellow, Alkyds Transparent, Dust Organic, Bubble Pak, Tempera Casein Encaustic Frescoes Pastels Experimental, Coatings Encyclopedic Dictionary, Low Low, Golden Artist Colors, Various Various Various Various, Bianco Sangiovanni, International Standards Organization, Slides Tungsten, Interior Exterior Rigid, Excellent Flexible, Commercial Standard, Excellent Sand, Nonaqueous Nonaqueous, Gamblin Artists Colors, Labeling of Hazardous Art Materials Act New!
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This chapter covers the auxiliary materials you will use when painting-the tools that do not become part of the painting itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
health label, acrylic dispersion paints, acrylic dispersion grounds, acrylic dispersion medium, acrylic dispersion primer, acrylic solution paints, gum turps, handling dry pigments, pure egg tempera, original thinner, slaked lime putty, screen lath, linseed stand oil, dust toxicity, fresco buono, matted work, solution varnishes, glue gesso, picture protection, acrylic solutions, denatured ethyl alcohol, wall scraper, odorless mineral spirits, dispersion binders, painting coat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
List of Suppliers, Material Safety Data Sheet, Kremer Pigments, Red Red Red, Inorganic Inorganic Inorganic, Organic Organic Organic, Yellow Yellow Yellow Yellow, Alkyds Transparent, Dust Organic, Bubble Pak, Tempera Casein Encaustic Frescoes Pastels Experimental, Coatings Encyclopedic Dictionary, Low Low, Golden Artist Colors, Various Various Various Various, Bianco Sangiovanni, International Standards Organization, Slides Tungsten, Interior Exterior Rigid, Excellent Flexible, Commercial Standard, Excellent Sand, Nonaqueous Nonaqueous, Gamblin Artists Colors, Labeling of Hazardous Art Materials Act New!
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