REVIEW:                           Rated 6 out of 10 

Painting and Drawing Secrets by Alfred Daniels

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 / Drawing Materials / Making a Start

Water Color Painting / What is Watercolor? / Transparent Watercolors / Colored Inks / Mixing Colors / Watercolor Practice & Hints / Opaque Watercolor / Some Modern Watercolor Artists and their Methods / Simple Studies in Watercolor / Opaque Studies

Sketching Outdoors / Satchels / Sketch Books / The Advantages of a Sketch Book / Filling Your Satchel / Easels and Stools / Painting Outdoors in Oils / Where to Draw / What to Draw / Sketching Practice / Foreground, Middle and Background / Big and Little / Accuracy / Perspective Outdoors / Viewpoint / Color / Drawing People / What to Put In—What to Leave Out / Down and Up / Land and Water / Completion / Panoramas / Time Marches On

Oil Painting / Oil Color / Choosing a Palette / Palette Knives / Dippers / Easels / Supports / Canvas / Brushes / Dilutants, Driers, Varnishes / Laying Out a Palette for Painting / Choosing, Mixing and Applying Color / Painting Exercise / Mixtures with Lemon / Still Life Painting / Putting the Still Life Together / Looking at Paintings

Picture Making / Taking Things Apart / Examining Pictures Using Nature / Composing on a Canvas / Movement on a Canvas / Space / Beginning a Picture / Drawings into Pictures / Squaring Up / Completing the Picture / On the Canvas / Summing Up

In Conclusion / Framing Drawings and Watercolors / Framing Oils / Some Further Fields of Study

Included Bonus Lessons - 73 pages

• How to Draw Parts Of The Body (17 Pages)
• Trees and How to Paint Them in Watercolor (40 pages)
• Great Drawing Tidbits (16 Pages)

The Negatives

EBooks, like the Drawing & Painting Secrets 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.

Support

An email address is offered by the publishers to answer any questions.

The Price

The price is $37 USD.

Guarantee:

If you are not satisfied for any reason, simply return it within sixty (60) days for a full refund of the purchase price and you can keep the 3 bonuses.

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.

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