A comprehensive, up-to-date guide offers information on a wide range of art materials, contains recipes for homemade paints, analyzes the health effects of paints, solvents, and varnishes, and covers new and unusual products on the market. Original.
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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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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.
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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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The word "palette" has a double meaning: It is the selection or range of hues employed in a painting, and the surface on which you mix colors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gum turps, industrial printing inks, acrylic emulsion binders, acrylic emulsion grounds, acrylic solution varnish, handling dry pigments, acrylic emulsion paints, bleached white beeswax, indirect painting, pure egg tempera, screen lath, fresco buono, linseed stand oil, glue gesso, solution varnishes, emulsion paintings, denatured ethyl alcohol, slaked lime putty, emulsion glue, excellent technical information, organic vapor mask, acrylic solutions, painting coat, lightfastness test, gum turpentine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
List of Suppliers, Oil Oil, Tempera Casein Encaustic Frescoes Pastels Experimental, Modern Organic, Daniel Smith, Dust Organic, Organic Organic Organic, Water Acid Alkali Pollutants Ultraviolet, Inorganic Inorganic Inorganic, New York, Bianco Sangiovanni, Health Fire, Inorganic Calcined, Mild Unknown, Nitrile Solvent-proof, Absorption Skin, Air-supplied Goggles, Red Red Red, Severe Moderate Mild, Textile Fading Card, Yellow Yellow Yellow, Colart International, Excellent Poor Excellent Excellent, Excellent Sand, Federal Hazardous Substances Act New!
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The word "palette" has a double meaning: It is the selection or range of hues employed in a painting, and the surface on which you mix colors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gum turps, industrial printing inks, acrylic emulsion binders, acrylic emulsion grounds, acrylic solution varnish, handling dry pigments, acrylic emulsion paints, bleached white beeswax, indirect painting, pure egg tempera, screen lath, fresco buono, linseed stand oil, glue gesso, solution varnishes, emulsion paintings, denatured ethyl alcohol, slaked lime putty, emulsion glue, excellent technical information, organic vapor mask, acrylic solutions, painting coat, lightfastness test, gum turpentine Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
List of Suppliers, Oil Oil, Tempera Casein Encaustic Frescoes Pastels Experimental, Modern Organic, Daniel Smith, Dust Organic, Organic Organic Organic, Water Acid Alkali Pollutants Ultraviolet, Inorganic Inorganic Inorganic, New York, Bianco Sangiovanni, Health Fire, Inorganic Calcined, Mild Unknown, Nitrile Solvent-proof, Absorption Skin, Air-supplied Goggles, Red Red Red, Severe Moderate Mild, Textile Fading Card, Yellow Yellow Yellow, Colart International, Excellent Poor Excellent Excellent, Excellent Sand, Federal Hazardous Substances Act New!
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- Artist Beware by Michael McCann PhD CIH on page 84, page 85, and Back Matter
- Conservation and Exhibitions: Packing, Transport, Storage, and Environmental Considerations (Butterworth - Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology) by Nathan Stolow in Back Matter
- Museum Environment, Second Edition (Butterworth - Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology) by GARRY THOMSON CBE in Back Matter
- Light and Color by Clarence Rainwater in Back Matter
- Pigment Handbook by Temple C. Patton in Back Matter
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- The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax by Joanne Mattera in Back Matter
- Artist's Color Manual: The Complete Guide to Working with Color by Simon Jennings in Back Matter
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