The Painter's Craft by Ralph Mayer

The Painter's Craft by Ralph Mayer

Poker machines-harmless amusement devices provided for your pleasure and relaxation in almost every pub and club across the country? It has been argued so. They can take your spare change, perhaps your wages. They could take your car or even your house. For John Edwards, however, the stakes quickly and unexpectedly became much higher

Questionable Behaviour
When two small-time crooks reluctantly agree to work off their debt to Eddie (Nails) Madden-the local drug peddler and would-be crime boss of the area-they soon learn that things aren't quite as they were led to believe. Morris is nobody's fool, possessing a keen understanding of human nature and an inherent sense of natural justice. It will require a good deal of intelligence and a measure of cunning, too, if events are to be steered toward a favorable outcome. But then there's his buddy, Spider.

Ralph Mayer was a painter and art conservator who lived from 1895 until 1979. He went on to teach at Columbia University after studying painting at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959, Mayer established the Artists Technological Research Center. He is the author of The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques, The Painter's Craft, and A Dictionary of Art Words and Techniques, among other works.