Review: New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook by Rhéni Tauchid

Since she sent me an advance copy at the beginning of June, the publicist at Watson-Guptill has patiently asked me a couple of times when my review of New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook by Rhéni Tauchid was going to appear. My answer has kept being "I'm working on it."

The problem is the book keeps distracting me! Whenever I pick it up to write the review I get diverted into reading it yet again instead of writing about it. So what's the attraction? For me it's the depth of the technical info, the why not just the how. These sentences from the introduction sum it up:

"It is not necessary or required that what is considered to be successful art be backed up by experience and education. However, boosting these aspects will inevitably elevate the outcome as well as the artist's merit."

New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook goes on sale today and I have, by the skin of my teeth (or should that be an acrylic skin?) got my review published in time.

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See Also:
• An Introduction to Acrylic Paint Mediums
• How To Create a Painting by Pouring Paints

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