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Painting and Drawing Secrets by Alfred Daniels Review
According to the publisher of Painting and Drawing Secrets: “ Recently a manuscript by highly acclaimed artist Alfred Daniels, has been re-discovered. Daniel’s work is the secret resource many top artists used to perfect their drawing and painting with oils and watercolors.”
It “is the quickest and easiest way to learn painting and drawing. Inside this standout work you’ll get nearly 60 illustrations and plates, as well as 197 pages jam-packed with nitty-gritty information, tips and techniques to get you drawing and painting in no time. In fact, absolutely everything any artist would need”
Who Will Benefit Most From This Drawing and Painting Course?
Beginners who have never painted before through intermediate students.
About The Instructor Alfred Daniels
According to the website royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk : Alfred Daniels, native of London, England, is a prolific artist… “whose paintings have been compared to the great American artist Ben Shahn… His award winning murals at Hammersmith Town Hall depicting life on the Thames are regarded as a modern day classic.”
“Mr. Daniels studied at the Royal College of Art in London in the early 1940’s. He was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1973, the Royal Society of British Artists in 1983 and elected Keeper of The Royal Society in 1991.”
The Physical Parts
There are no physical parts to this course. Instead it is downloaded as a series of PDF files to your computer from the internet. The ebook files can either be read directly on your computer screen or they can be printed and read from hardcopies.
A Partial List Of The Lessons – 197 Pages
In the Beginning, Water Color Painting, Sketching Outdoors, Oil Painting, Picture Making, Framing, Some Further Fields of Study
The Negatives
EBooks, like this course, can be uncomfortable to read from a computer or time consuming and inconvenient to print out and read conventionally.
The written word alone is not always the most effective way to learn such an intensely visual subject. Video lessons from DVDs are a much more efficient way to learn to paint and draw. There is nothing clearer than listening to an instructor talk about a technique followed by a live demonstration.
Even though Drawing and Painting Secrets offers 60 illustrations it could benefit from even more.
The Positives
For aspiring artists that just can’t wait to get this course in hand, it can be purchased and downloaded to your computer in about 10 minutes, (assuming a high speed broadband internet connection).
You will be receiving lessons from a recognized, award winning, professional artist that otherwise would not be available if it were not for this book.
There are many insights and tips from Mr. Daniels that are just not available anywhere else.
The course is extremely logical, organized and thorough in the way it presents the material.
The Bottom Line
My first thought about Drawing and Painting Secrets was that it covers drawing plus painting with watercolors and oils, so it must be too broad to offer enough depth. But, in reality, it is surprisingly detailed and thorough.
Modern art master, Alfred Daniels, has a very clear, personal and enjoyable style to his writing that makes each lesson easy to understand. He offers lots of tiny, valuable tips without becoming too rigid with imposing rules. He even states in the first chapter that you’ll break all of the rules eventually anyway. He is quick to enlighten the student with his many opinions and philosophies, yet always identifying them as such in a most humble way.
Mr. Daniel’s book makes an excellent resource for any artist. If you could only afford one lesson course I would definitely choose a program like the Learn and Master Painting videos because of the obvious rich benefits of actually being able to see the instructor in action. However, I do believe that most students would still be wise to include Drawing and Painting Secrets as a part of their total collection of educational art resources.
Therefore, it is because of these reasons that I can recommend Drawing and Painting Secrets by Alfred Daniels.
About the Author
John Mackinnon, having grown up in an artistic family, has had a passion for art for nearly 50 years. If you wish to find a good set of video painting course dvds, John has posted a series of detailed reviews and comparison charts to greatly simplify this process for you. Learn which Painting and Drawing lessons are gems and which to avoid before you buy. http://www.MasterPaintingLessons.com
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