Funny thing…this does not appear on the Media or Painting Forum.
I can see the point that both sides are making above and that is why this forum exists.
I picked up some good ideas from this but felt it did not add a great deal to the earlier French Volume. The style is exactly the same…….
My earlier comments appeared in;
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I wanted a totally different approach, using washes for example, inks maybe….something I could dip into for ideas. If this had been volume one, I would have loved it. It was not, plus it desperately needed proofreading by one whose first language was English. Any of us would have done this for free within 24 hours. The text is very poor, the painting work is terrific.
I am involved, in daily work, in editing a medical journal that appears monthly and I just know that the last final touches make all the difference for credibility. Use the help that is out there, freely available. No proofreader would have passed this. The ideas are great, but I could not reproduce them in Spanish, or Italian, or German, or French (well maybe French but…)