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Review: Portrait Revolution: Inspiration from Around the World for Creating Art in Multiple Mediums and Styles Julia Kay, editor

Review: Portrait Revolution: Inspiration from Around the World for Creating Art in Multiple Mediums and Styles Julia Kay, editor Watson-Guptill Publications 2017 What a great little book to thumb through!   I’m an admirer of art more than an artist.   Had to put that disclaimer up first, but admirers have a bit of role in the making of art, too.   Kay assembled the work of quite a few folks who used several different mediums and approaches for this one.   Each page was a new scene for me. Art on a phone?!   New kind of crayons? Yep, that can happen.   And as I read through the comments from her and those that presented their work here I found ideas I hadn’t seen before, products used I’d not heard of, and some down to earth advice from bunches of people.   The publishers used some nice paper and printing for this collection, and that added to my enjoyment.   I like books that feel like books and images that reveal marks from...