I have learned so much from you all, and I hope you’ll see that reflected in the book. The spark for doing the book grew out of a discussion on this very blog a year ago last February, where you all shared profound insights about what you liked in an art book. They’re two different animals, though I tried to keep some of the blog’s informal and practical tone.Ī lot of the material in the book has never before been published and hasn’t even been seen on this blog. The reason I wrote the book-and this blog-is that there’s a lot of information that I think is crucial to imaginative picturemaking but I’ve never been able to find it in how-to art books.Īdapting material from a blog into a book turned out to be a much, much bigger job than I first imagined. The material comes from my art school lectures and also from this blog. This is the main project I’ve been working on during the last year. Andrews McMeel will be doing a beautiful job of production, and they are keeping the price down to $24.99. It’s a big book: 224 pages, 400 illustrations. The book is called Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist. It just came in! Here’s what the book looks like. I was waiting to tell you until the cover was finalized. I’ve been waiting to tell you the good news: This September Andrews McMeel Publishing will be releasing a book that I have written based on this blog.
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