A Complete Reference
By Mark David Gottsegen. This amazing resource has information on everything from the ground up: canvas and paper, sizes and grounds, pigments and binders, solvents and thinners, and even varnishes and preservatives.
This amazingly comprehensive book also contains dozens of step-by-step recipes for paints, pastels, varnishes, gessoes, sizes, and supports that take this guide way beyond the competition.
Authored by the chair of the federal government's ASTM committee on artist's materials, this revised Painter's Handbook considers the enormous changes in the art-materials world since it was first published in 1993. New materials, new health issues, new information on outmoded and even harmful supplies and practices mean that every painter needs a copy.
Paperback, 352 pages. © Watson-Guptill, 2006.