Rheni Tauchid

I see that only one other person has rated this book and they gave it a 3. I therefore feel a need to counter that rating with a rating of my own, because I only buy books that I think are of extremely high quality - books worth actually owning. It is gorgeous AND informative. Some potential complaints I could see are that it was published in conjunction with the Tri-Art corporation, so all of the mediums talked about in the book are Tri-Art brand - a rather expensive brand aimed at professional artists. It does not compare brands or talk about cheaper alternatives. Personally I don't mind mind that (despite the fact that I am definitely in the category of people who must, of necessity, use cheaper alternatives), but I do have a particular complaint of my own. A strong enough one that I must say that in truth, if I were not using the rating system to battle a single lower rating, I would probably give this book perhaps more of a 4.5 or even a 4.0, because despite it being published so recently it seems very un-knowledgeable about the recent trend of pour-painting. It does MENTION pour painting, briefly, but the information it gives is extremely limited. Strangely enough, it doesn't even mention the Tri-Art brand products that are made for pour-painting... unless they just came out with those products in the past two years, and they didn't exist in 2018 when the book was published, which seems unlikely, though IS possible I suppose. Of course, other artists might find their little 4-page section on pour-painting to be perfectly sufficient, and perhaps it is simply because I have been so interested in pour-painting specifically lately that it seems so inadequate to me.… (plus d'informations)