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Steven, I wholeheartedly agree about Speed's books. His oil painting book is absolutely the finest book I've read on the subject. For having no colorplates, it is still remarkably absorbing due to Speed's sharply defined ideas and vivid prose. Many times I literally laughed out loud at hearing him nail a dodgy ineffable art concept with a deft metaphor. So many times did I feel him put my own half-realized painting discoveries into terse little axioms. The book is full of "so that's why I do that's" and "aha's".
A thoroughly enjoyable must-read.
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