The Sound of Sleat

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Summary: The Sound of Sleat
Review: A beautiful book. I am reading this book while I am teaching myself oil painting, in an abstract way. Although I do not have a chance to see the sky of the Sound of Sleat, I can feel the beauty of it through the book. This book tells everything about being a painter. At the end, nothing matters except the love of painting. This is the book should be read by anyone who wants to be a painter, or just to paint.

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Summary: The Sound of Sleat
Review: A beautiful book. I am reading this book while I am teaching myself oil painting, in an abstract way. Although I do not have a chance to see the sky of the Sound of Sleat, I can feel the beauty of it through the book. This book tells everything about being a painter. At the end, nothing matters except the love of painting. This is the book should be read by anyone who wants to be a painter, or just to paint.

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Summary: truthful
Review: Boy, Scheuler had a difficult time. I love this book. It really captures the difficulties of being a painter, the selfish behaviour, disasters with money, successes and failures of creative life. I regularly lend it to friends in arts practice. If you are any kind of painter, chances are you will recognize yourself in this book. I'm no fan of Scheuler's work, but he expresses himself very well and I find myself at least understanding WHY he did what he did.

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Summary: ego
Review: i read only about half of this book and left it only feeling sorry for Jon Schueler that this was a major part of his legacy as a painter. if you want to read the memoir of a highly self centered artist driven purely by ego than this is the book for you. his struggles with art are predictable and childish and never really deviate from a self-perscribed fragile genius line. so if you like self absorbed ego this is for you but mind that a book on a pop artist or minimalist might be a good counter balance to this intellectually-lacking foray.

p.s. one star is unfair but thought it was the only way to even out all these five stars. in reality its probably at least a solid two stars. . . i mean the people who put it together did do a really good job. . .

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Summary: Significant Marks of an Artist's Hand !
Review: This is a tour-de-force of the creative process by a man as he casts a cold, critical eye on his own struggles. The honesty of this musician, painter and writer regarding himself, his relationships and his quest braces you like the wind of Scotland. His 'sense of place' regarding the Sound of Sleat rivals that of the poet W.B. Yeats.