John A. Parks has published Universal Principles of Art: 100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art, an elegantly-designed compendium of “one hundred principles, fundamental ideas and approaches to making art.”
Dan Gheno’s new book, available in May, is a 176-page compilation of ten of articles he wrote for Drawing Magazine.
As I thought about which books are most important to me and my development as an artist, it gradually dawned on me that it would not be a reading list.