A Few of My Favorite Art Books

[@Mish7913]

List of Books: • Noah's Ark - Rien Poortvliet • William D Berry: 1954-1956 Alaskan Field Sketches • Carl Rungius: Painter of the Western Wilderness • Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon • Paintings From the Wild: The Art and life of George McLean • Paul Calle: An Artist's Journey • Bruno Liljefors: The Peerless Eye - Martha Hill • John Singer: Sargent - Edited by Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond • The Art of Thomas Aquinas Daly: The Painting Season • 200 Drawings: The Drawings of Heinrich Kley • Across the Ravaged Land - Nick Brandt

[@yonkamacho9842]

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[@Dlovitz1024]

Thank you for this !

[@paulbuis1489]

Rien Poortvliet is a Dutch artist/painter. I am from the Netherlands, so I am excited to see that you love his work. I have a few books too. Greetings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@LukasKetner]

LOVE his book of Tudor (or late medieval?) Dutch town life. I forget who I loaned it to, so time to track down another copy :P

[@ninjadodovideos]

For those curious how such a name is pronounced in Dutch, it would be something more like "Reen Poart-fleet" to English speakers.

[@hannalooye5714]

He is amazing, and it is not oilpaint. It's watercolor, which is way harder.

[@LukasKetner]

@@hannalooye5714 That's a pretty debatable take (everything is subjective tho). Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache are often considered practice mediums to study for the use of oil paint since they are fast-drying, water-based, and less expensive. I've always found watercolor and gouache to have a much easier learning curve than oils since you can turn out work much faster and improve quicker as a result.

[@hildevandingenen-md4jy]

Rien Poortvliet is also one of my favorites.

[@pjlewisful]

Aaron makes one feel like a friendly, knowledge filled visit to a favorite friend with common interests. Love the tidbits he throws in about the artist's life.

[@feybaha]

Yes there's something infectious about people who are really passionate about their work and Aaron is like that

[@maryjane89]

Little pronunciation guide from a Dutch person on Rien Poortvliet's name for English speakers: reen (like "seen") poart-vleet ("oa" like "whoa"). I bought his dog book recently - really inspiring!

[@Lonewolfandalens]

Another fascinating thing about Nick’s work is it’s all done with a film camera! He is doing a lot of work towards conservation as well. I wish I had grabbed his first book when it came out.

[@afternoonbears6989]

That was super relaxing, enlightening and cozy!

[@MarcHendry]

Glad to see some of these from outside the range of artists that I personally know about, there's a few I'd never heard of. My habit is just to slap the subject in the middle of the page, so I'm very keen to see how different people do composition + staging, and learn a little more about that

[@zit-u1x]

Aaron, we'd love to see other books from your home library. Thanks for the useful videos!

[@finchvink]

Love seeing you talk about Rien Poortvliet! He's definitely one of my favourite Dutch artists and I'm glad to see his influence outside of my own country. His gnome books are super in-depth as well, so it's fun for people into fantasy worldbuilding too.

[@eliannevdlinden6047]

Have you been to his museum? I highly recommend going there when you got time!

[@finchvink]

@@eliannevdlinden6047 It's been on my to-do list for a long time now! I had a museum card for a while but sadly not a lot of time so I never got to it. Good to know it's worth a visit though!

[@AmbiCahira]

Thank you so much for sharing these! I am only 6 years into my art journey so being introduced to great artists feels very helpful. My background is animal photography so I get awestruck sometimes when I see how artists captured a sketch or a painting/drawing. Including you. :) Super inspiring!

[@madiko]

Dear Aron, I very much liked the way, you presented your favourite books. And especially for the last one could see some remembrance in your paintings and art style, for instance the lighting and composition of the lion. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Germany 👋🏼

[@desenhosdoestevao]

Thank you for sharing not only these amazing books, but your passion for these artists' art.

[@Angela10277088]

Thank you! Loved seeing a peek at your favorite books and artists. Very informative! You explained their artistry and what inspired you about them so well. I would love to see more.

[@ivodassen87]

Man Aaron, I am Dutch and thankful that the first book you mention is Rien Poortvliet. I am amazed that all around the world he is known. I just love his books about dogs. And there are some quirky videos on KZbin in English with him showing his house.

[@hiruliao]

Thank you for sharing your favorite books with us. All of them are great but Heinrich Kley's drawing did amaze me a lot.

[@garrett3338]

Wow this was amazing. I love seeing artists art book collections. Maybe a part 2 in the future. :)

[@serlymarton]

I have always stopped and looked at the bookshelf-background in your tour's and these are hidden gems, thank you!

[@hannahelizabeth5763]

Oooo! I love art books!!! Excited for part 2!!

[@Kiara-poo....346]

I loved how all of these books were set up, I wrote them all down and i'll slowley get them all!

[@culturefan]

Thanks for showing. I'd never heard of most of these.

[@GeenoGab]

Thank you for recommending these books, I'm now on the hunt for them. And I knew eventually you'd mention the GOAT himself - John Singer Sargent.

[@jesusgabriel915]

I really love your work

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

Thank you so much 😀

[@tckscience414]

Brilliant as always. Stopped mid-video to order the Berry Book.

[@Famelifenews]

WOW So Beautiful painting, Using Colours are Amazing, Congratulations, wishing you a wonderful day, Blessings 💜💐🌹

[@nigelhill74]

Awesome books from amazing artists! Thanks!

[@michaeld3599]

Hello Aaron. Would you be able to do a second part to this video when you have the time ? I have managed to find some of the books you recommended here and would love to see what others you might recommend from your collection. Best wishes

[@ryuumaru98]

Love what you do, you give shout outs to other artists for their work, you make amazing art, you help up and coming animators. Keep up the great work! ❤

[@lioninaboxgames]

That is absolutely incredible! I thought about commenting and asking if there'll ever be a book by Aaron and co. about arts and animation, and then this video comes out!

[@DigitalinDaniel]

Berry's work is awesome, thanks for sharing! I prefer capturing the concepts and ideas over spending all your time rendering, and pieces like his are just a storyboard of information. Much the same way your elephant book just works through all the details on elephants.

[@douglasriddle6447]

Thank you for sharing. Would love to see this as a regular feature from you.

[@jazw4649]

Fantastic list! So inspiring, Thank You for sharing these artists work Aaron! 💜

[@palemoongraphics]

Thanks Aaron! Love your work. You have beautiful books there. Please make more videos of your book library. Cheers!

[@elasen3087]

What an edit ❤️ mind blowing ❤️🙏🏻

[@bridgetcaton2881]

Hey perfect timing! I've been looking for new art books for inspiration 🙌

[@33teo33]

i love your art, i love your content and i hope one day to meet you and try and fullfil my dreams of becoming an animator

[@BeatrizOliveira-lh9ol]

Simply beautiful

[@coradawson2056]

Thank you for doing this! I hope there is a part two!!! I can't wait to dive into these ")

[@funfilmanimations]

Another great video Aaron 😁👍 one of my favorite animation books is The Illusion of Life

[@lozza1874]

I bought that after being told about it while at disneyworld in January, what a book!!!

[@nazaxprime]

I splurged this winter and picked up a bunch of books. Andrew Loomis: Figure drawing for all its worth. One you may find particularly useful for animal anatomy would be "Paleoartists handbook: recreating prehistoric animals in art" by Mark P Witton. Theb theres James Gurney's "Imaginative Realism" and "Color and Light". Meanwhile, every book you shared were excelence given form. Thank you, ive heard of and studied many if these artists but havent had these books so ill seruously consider adding them to my buy list. Oh, I would like to note also that James Gurney has youtube content.

[@remy_3277]

Dear sir, This made me smile. I was pleasantly surprised you know Dutch artist Rien Poortvliet and started the video with one of his books. I also own this impressive work. He knew how to draw animals/ nature

[@davidboost22]

thank you for showing us!

[@eliannevdlinden6047]

Rien Poortvliet! A dutch artist, I am a huge fan of him, visited his museum. If you’re ever back in the Netherlands take a detour to his museum!

[@danielwilliams7161]

There are two other books by Kley that are some of my favorites, and still easily accessible online. I also love Frederic Remington but his books can be a little harder to track down.

[@lv7312]

I own Rien Poortvliet's artbook about dogs, beautiful work.

[@rhett7738]

I wonder if you have heard of Victor Ambrus? He made fantastic historical paintings and drawings with a similar expression to Heinrich Kley. His drawings of horses and humans are pretty impressive. Worth checking out if you havent.

[@RallyTheTally]

I love this video! So pleasant!

[@Tito_michi]

I highly recommend to check works of Russian artist Vadim Gorbatov. He is now in his 80s; he spent most of his time in the wild and has many wonderful drawings and paintings of animals from over the world. He does have book published in USA, something about falcons.

[@cheeser546]

Great video! I love a lot of these too!

[@adrianhughes4951]

Really enjoyed this video... 😊

[@fijaystudio]

I love this vid. Books!!!

[@claireweaver2013]

AWESOME! I was just wanting to know what art books you might recommend on the Tuesday/Thursday live stream:) I love your art books, and figured you'd have great recommendations:) Great Video! I definitely want to get some of those for my collection:):)

[@MoniqueBourgeois]

Thank you....really enjoyed this:)

[@cassandrascott2613]

Thank you!

[@Tat2TankT]

This was great thanks for sharing ❤

[@ikninja1hd]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@ngamouivana1816]

love it

[@SketchedbySte]

Is there a part 2 / more or Aarons book videos? thanks

[@33teo33]

hello aaron! early again, i was just scrolling through your videos in search of something i haven't watched yet, and then you just posted

[@tieganvan5573]

Im a bit surprised that you haven`t heard of Ralph Thompson, hes a great safari artist and he was excellent with ink. his paintings of lions are out of this world

[@ramizshould]

Thank you sir.

[@siaka-stevensokyere7245]

John Singer Sargent!😋🔥😊😌

[@asn413]

have you ever seen burne hogarth's figure drawing books? I learned a lot there.

[@reginaldforthright805]

They’re bad

[@supremedesign6110]

Thank you very wonderful reference me🙏

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

Aaron is dressed like Steve Irwin today lol. Which is fitting I guess considering his love of animals

[@megsup167]

❤️

[@moviethegame8839]

More plz

[@arnaudwurm-munoz1325]

Which one do you recommend for new learner and senior learner???

[@MrPipos1234]

Is it a coincidence there are so many brother bear animals on the covers? Thanks for the recommendations!

[@sevo12t]

Thanks interesting

[@doris3026]

Question Mr. Blaise, I was wondering why do you look at the ceilling every now and then ? is that a trick like squinting eyes to see the dark spot in a subject ?

[@lv7312]

The camera is probably hanging somewhere above him, looks like he's checking if the book is in the right place.

[@christinachampion3676]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing. From Johnny Delly

[@daveg686]

👍

[@Leikjarinn]

Where can i get that The art of Aaron Blaise cap your wearing!

[@cerberoarte]

Hi Master Aaron

[@jeremybot]

As soon as I saw the title of the video, I thought to myself, "Oh, he's gotta Kim's Africa book.", and sure enough... there it is right at the beginning... on the bookshelf.

[@Dooger414]

In b4 Illusion of Life and Drawn to Life

[@timz9862]

Didn’t Heinrich Kley work on art for Fantasia?

[@AaronBlaiseArt]

No. Fantasia was based on his art.

[@timz9862]

@@AaronBlaiseArt maybe I’m thinking that the Dance of the Hours was just heavily influenced by his work. I know Walt have his artists a bunch of Kley’s work to look at.

[@reginaldforthright805]

@@timz9862why look at kley, he’s a scribbly mess. The animators drew much better.

[@timz9862]

@@reginaldforthright805 Because Kley was a good artist and Walt loved his work. And that's your opinion.Scribbly mess doesn't necessarily mean bad art. It can convey an enormous amount of energy.

[@AJourneyToEternity412]

Is there still a point to buying art books when you can see any desired painting online?

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

Yeah, it's called owning it and getting accurate information on the artist.

[@nicholashughes4342]

Greatness,thanks,stay blessed and all in Jesus shalom

[@ishan_r]

Sir please do a video on how to draw monkeys ...

[@ManOfSdeel]

goldmine

[@Lucasrisca]

brabo

[@helmaschine1885]

You spelled Paul Calle's name wrong in the chapter titles. Paul Kelly is some kinda pin up painter.

[@prism8289]

Sargent is a God (as everyone in the Ringling pipeline discovers).

[@rogercrownover5950]

That's the prob. Todays digital brush fills in the stroke by stroke that these guys did by hand and makes todays artists...digital or other media lazy is what alot of us are saying and must take those brushes away once in a while and go to canvas painting for say two weeks out of the month.....but, alas human laziness sadly kicks in. IMO for fact of losing the art soul as it were.......sighhhh...

[@356diane]

Im in trouble. this is like an all you can eat buffet. Abstract design in realism is what sends art over the edge . AI is not capable of creating this type of experience in art. Its human spirit and intelligence interacting with awe wonder beauty and truth

[@TamalPlays]

these books are so expensive my here.

[@reginaldforthright805]

For animal art I would just study brother bear, Aladdin, Tarzan, lucky Luke, Yakari, jungle book, Dalmatians, ichabod crane and maybe watch some nature footage and go to the zoo. Forget these dusty old tomes.

[@percy66]

Not even Loomies???

[@reginaldforthright805]

These books are all lame no offense.

[@adrianarencibia2716]

@reginaldforthright805 no offense to you but i believe that your not a fan of art and see art as beauty or both so on and so forth etc. agian no offense sorry if you feel like i'm doing this on purpose im not. but people like myself and everyone else likes his artbooks so you might not be in the umbrella of appreation and see art as beauty like us your different.