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Paint by Number
Paint by Number
Author: William L. Bird Jr.
What is the fascination of paint by numbers? Is it the intoxicating and compulsive act of filling in small pools of color? Or the easy thrill of creating your own impressionist masterpiece? Or a fond nostalgic yearning for a craze that cut across national boundaries and age groups? Invented in 1951 by Dan Robbins-based on an idea used by Leonar...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781568982823
ISBN-10: 1568982828
Publication Date: 5/7/2001
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Very cool book, such nostalgia from my childhood! I'm an artist, so there must have been some influence just from the smell of the oil paints and the lusciousness of putting paint onto canvas with a brush. I enjoyed the history of this art genre, stuff I never knew about.
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