• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Being Tazim

Vancouver Food, Lifestyle, & Travel Blog

  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Support Us
  • Work With Me
    • Contact
  • Recipes
  • Wellness
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Videos
You are here: Home / Art / March Break—Complete Painting and Drawing Handbook Review

March Break—Complete Painting and Drawing Handbook Review

by Tazim Damji

Sharing is caring!

  • Share
  • Tweet

There are a few books that every good writer has on their shelf-a dictionary to look stuff up, a thesaurus for when you’re at a loss for words, and a style guide so that you can check your grammar. But what about for visual artists?

Whether you want to learn how to prime canvas, or how to draw a great landscape-there are a couple of DK books that we think are a must for any shelf. The artists manual, and their new Complete Painting and Drawing Handbook.

dk drawing painting

This march break, we’ll be lugging the painting and drawing handbook with us as we head out into hills. It’s full of all the things we learned in art classes at school and in university-even the things we’ve forgotten. Like a thesaurus and a style guide, it’s all about ideas and getting them down on the page effectively.

 

drawing

The book is divided into four workshops, drawing, watercolour, acrylic, and oil painting. Each segment features a general overview that covers things like the materials themselves-pages and pages of neat art supplies to drool over; general techniques; and then a series of projects, each building on the last, so that you can nail the techniques they’ve introduced.

It would be the perfect gift for an artistic teen, but it’s also a good primer if you’ve been away from your easel for a while. What we like the most is the specific tidbits that help you tackle tough disciplines. For example, the book gives good advice about the way in which line density plays off white space when line drawing-this picture is of the shoulder of a parrot. Every mark is made with the same technical pen, but thicker lines and cross hatching provide shading and dimensionality.

It’s the newest addition to our art-book library, and we can’t wait until its spine is as battered as its neighbour’s.

drawing book

The Artist’s Manual is a book we’ve had for years, and it’s as close to a dictionary as an art book gets. Where the Complete Painting and Drawing Handbook tells you all about what to put on canvas, the Artist’s Manual tells you what canvas to pick, and how to stretch and prepare it. As well as ten thousand other thing, like how to clean stubborn pen nibs and properly frame and mount works on paper.

leaves

For us, we can’t think of a better way to spend March Break then up to our ears in paper and pencil shavings; but even if painting and drawing aren’t you or your family’s thing, DK likely has a book that would be perfect for your March break-from robotics to space, and from Greek mythology to swords and armor, there’s something sure to strike your fancy.

Check out their What Did You Make On Your March Break contest by following the link below-you could win a prize pack featuring signed books-or a $150 shopping spree.

march break
We were sent this book for review purposes and to promote the DK March Break contest/selection of books. We were not compensated in any other way.

Related Posts

  • Nomad: A Global Approach to Interior StyleNomad: A Global Approach to Interior Style
  • Step-By-Step Home Design & DecoratingStep-By-Step Home Design & Decorating
  • Blurb Custom Personalized Photo Book for My Most Precious MemoriesBlurb Custom Personalized Photo Book for My Most Precious Memories
  •  London—Portrait of a City Taschen Book Review London—Portrait of a City Taschen Book Review
  • Pocket Genius Books from DK Canada for the Little AdventurerPocket Genius Books from DK Canada for the Little Adventurer

Filed Under: Art, DIY Tagged With: books, painting, review

About Tazim Damji

Tazim Damji is a content creator, blogger and social media marketing specialist from Vancouver, Canada. She is passionate about photography, vegan food, and travelling. Read more posts by Tazim. Visit her food and adventure blog Celebrate Life's Adventures Connect with Tazim via Twitter or on Facebook . Google+

Previous Post: « A Quick Cord Organization Trick
Next Post: Chasing the Sweet Things in Life—Inspired by Sweet Paul Magazine Spring Issue »

Primary Sidebar

About:

Being Tazim Blog Vancouver Canada Lifestyle BlogI'm Tazim, a 40-year-old Vancouverite who is passionate about adventure, learning new things, and making connections. Content on Being Tazim ranges from smart ideas for plant-based cooking and baking to ways to enjoy life's experiences, to inspiration and information on attractions and travel destinations near and far. Read the full story here.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
Being Tazim contains advertising banners and some contextual affiliate links. An affiliate link means I receive commission on sales of the products or services that are linked to in my posts. So, if you click on a link and make a purchase from an affiliate site, then I may make a commission from that purchase. I only work with affiliates I genuinely love and fit my brand.

Footer

Let’s Connect!

Hey there! I'm Tazim and I'm a lifestyle, food, and travel writer and photographer. I inspire, motivate, and encourage my audience to explore their immediate surroundings and those further afield. I do this by sharing plant-based food recipes, ways to enhance my readers' homes and lives, and local and other attractions/travel destinations I experience. You can find my stories and adventures on my other blog Celebrate Life's Adventures Read more about me. . .

Amazon Associates Disclosure

Tazim Damji is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Copyright © 2021 · Foodie Pro Theme by · Shay Bocks Genesis Framework · Built on the WordPress