Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book has pretty pictures - that's all I liked about it. There is basic color theory ( you can find described for free by numerous other artists). I only glimpsed at the book and description before I bought it. I had enjoyed the artist's work and have one of her books. I thought this would be a book of color recipes to show how the swatches were achieved. And also how these colors would be incorporated into the pictures. Instead it is just random swatches. And I guess you are just supposed to look at the pictures and try and match them up to see how she used them. So this is a $16 book to tell you to make swatches of your own paints ( I kid you not) and to look at different things for inspiration. Obviously plenty of people think this is fantastic but I don't buy many art books at this price. And generally not unless I see a flip thru because so many turn out to be a disappointment. I didn't with this one and have wasted money that could have been spent on another book or materials. So instead of inspiring it is just frustrating that someone charged so much for this.