What a happy book. Carol Marine's book called Daily Painting, is a joy to read. It's full of paintings you'd want to tear out and hang up (but I will resist). She shares her story of difficulties in finding time to paint, even when there was nothing more she wanted to do, yet she lacked the zest to get going. She poured our her heart to a portrait artist she admired and he suggested she do some sort of art everyday. His three page response thrilled her, but she failed to follow it. The daily painting movement really launched her into doing small paintings everyday, and she's been at it ever since.
In the book she covers supplies (not being such a critical decision that it takes away the joy), colors of paint to purchase, surfaces to work on and more. Included are paintings by other daily painters---advice from them, and on the whole this book is all a person would need to attempt to self-teach themselves. She's covered the questions a beginning artist would likely come up with, and is just so very encouraging. I heartily recommend it.
Also check out her website at http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/cmarine.
(i received this book free to review from crown publishing)
