Book Review: The Artist’s Guide to Sketching by Gurney and Kinkade

James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade’s classic sketching guidebook is refreshed and expanded in the newest edition, coming to booksellers February 25.

James Gurney (left) and Thomas Kinkade (right) in the early 1980s.

Here’s my take on the expanded and remastered edition of The Artist’s Guide to Sketching by

James Gurney

and Thomas Kinkade—how the new edition revives an old classic, what sets it apart from the original—and whether or not I qualify to be a real hoister.