Paint Your Own Pictures
by Norman Colquhoun
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
This book is written for the complete beginner in painting. It is written for the person who would like to paint but has no idea how to begin....The author is a former scientific researcher who became interested in the problems of creative expression through painting and after WWII established a program of teaching painting to hospital patients as a form of art therapy. It includes practical advice on making a start, types of paints and pigments, oil painting, watercolours, art as representation, and colours.
Published in 1953 as Penguin Handbook PH 22. 221 pages. It is in reasonable used condition with soiling and wear to cover including creasing at corners and some rubbing and fading to spine. Binding is firm and all pages are intact. There are a couple of painty fingerprints on front cover. Pages are foxed and tanned but free from annotations.
Carefully packaged and ready for immediate shipment from Sydney, Australia, with tracking.
Published in 1953 as Penguin Handbook PH 22. 221 pages. It is in reasonable used condition with soiling and wear to cover including creasing at corners and some rubbing and fading to spine. Binding is firm and all pages are intact. There are a couple of painty fingerprints on front cover. Pages are foxed and tanned but free from annotations.
Carefully packaged and ready for immediate shipment from Sydney, Australia, with tracking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Beth's Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NF0025
- Title
- Paint Your Own Pictures
- Author
- Norman Colquhoun
- Format/Binding
- Blue and yellow illustrated paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Painting;
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About the Seller
Beth's Books
Biblio member since 2018
Stanmore, New South Wales
About Beth's Books
An avid collector over many years, I am now parting with some of my beloved books. Most of my collection is over 50 years old. My particular interests include cookery, poetry, philosophy, natural therapies, and Scottish literature.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....