Light for the Artist

[Patton Art]

Does anyone have this book? I heard that this was a really good book, and was recommended it. I just want to see if anyone here has it or has read it; and if they have it, would they be willing to sell it? ;)

btw, if you don't know what I'm talking about, I speak of "Light for the Artist" by Ted Seth Jacobs.

[Elwell]

It is a really good book. It's very dense, and veers into metaphysics at times, but it has a ton of information. Jacobs' work is beautiful, too, and it's full of reproductions.

Unfortunately, it's out of print, and costs a fortune.

[Yuri]

A search in Amazon.com says no. :P

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823027686/qid=1055508862/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-3982206-4636654?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Actually, there are probably much cheaper sources you could try. I'm only using that above link as an example.

[MadSamoan]

I have this book. Jacobs is a very wordy author and it can be a struggle to read the book cover to cover. If you read any of his essays on Art Renewal you'd see what I mean. He's a technically superb artist though and if you can get it, it's a good find. Priority-wise, I would invest the 100-200 bucks instead in getting one of Richard Schmid's books, preferrably 'Alla Prima'.

[Patton Art]

hey there
thanks for the replies guys.
I found the book on ebay and got it for 45 bucs! I used paypal and all that, so if by chance I don't get the book, I'll get my money back (the guy I bought it off of had a lot of good customer reviews though).

i should be gettin it fairly soon... i'm quite excited, eh

[buffaloe]

check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3529397622&category=41518

So far it's only up to $7.75! but it has 3 more days to go.... good luck!