The Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Techniques and Materials by Colin Hayes

The Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing

Techniques and Materials

by Colin Hayes

A QED Book

Phaidon Press, 1981, ISBN 714818844, full colour photographs and illustrations throughout, colour frontispiece, large format hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, a little creasing at edges (see photographs)

“The professional artist and the amateur are confronted by the same question: Am I getting the best out of the colours, the brushes, the surfaces which I use?  Do the techniques which I employ, the materials I choose, express my talents to the full?  The range of materials and equipment available to the artist has greatly increased in recent years, whether the chosen medium is water-colours or oils, gouache or tempera, pastels or acrylics.  So has the choice of drawing tools, papers and print-making equipment.  Now, a panel of working artists have combined their knowledge and experience in this unique, highly illustrated manual.  Each of the principle contributors is a recognised practitioner in his own field, and the panel was assembled by Colin Hayes, Reader in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London.  The Contributing Editors have taken as their examples a wide range of Old Masters and contemporary paintings, and the techniques used in these works have been explained step-by-step photography.”