Review:
I'm not sure I'd ever seen this artist's work prior to getting this art book. What led to me picking it up was the lovely landscape on the cover. Those are the kinds of colors I tend to gravitate towards when I'm picking out yarn, too.
This book includes several galleries of Iraville's artwork (organized into five sections: people, landscapes, animals, buildings, and plants) with chapters on her workspace, tips, painting process, and the steps for how she makes her own watercolors and watercolor sketchbooks in between. There's also some peeks into her sketchbooks, and information about how she creates homemade paper stretchers.
I never got very far on working with watercolor, and also never really had the patience to properly work in layers. It always impresses me what people who actually know what they're doing can accomplish. This artist's illustrations of people tended to look mysterious and a little haunting, but I particularly loved her landscapes and animals.
"Cozy" is definitely the right word for the bulk of Iraville's artwork. I really enjoyed looking through this. Her "how to" sections were a little daunting - they had step-by-step instructions and pictures, but I'd probably still need to watch videos before I felt at all confident trying any of it myself. Still, the sketchbook part has me tempted, if only because it'd be cool to sew together my own book and probably (?) wouldn't require me to get much in the way of supplies just to try it out.
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