The Artist's Handbook

This practical guide to the techniques of painting, drawing, printmaking and the related visual arts, both traditional and contemporary, is also an enyclopaedia of tools and materials in which every medium is described and its uses and creative potential examined. A series of charts provides a reference guide to the most useful pigments, with advice on such properties as lightfastness, opacity and toxicity. An appendix includes recipes and methods for preparing your own colours, painting mediums, varnishes and grounds. The book also provides advice on equipping a studio, storing and maintaining artworks, framing, and presenting and exhibiting work.