Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Oil Painting

by Marian Appellof (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $5.52

  An overview of the tools and materials of oil painting, this book contains advice about colour palette, colour mixing and applied colour theory, preparing a canvas, designing a composition, direct painting, scumbling, blending, layering, glazing, impasto, monotyping. It also shows you the most effective ways to work with light and shadow, model forms, handle values and achieve colour harmony, as well as how to develop ideas and solve common painting problems. Capture the heat of summer light or the crisp, cold light of winter. Paint a brilliant blue sky filled with billowing clouds or the lifting of a late morning mist. The pros teach all this and more in the section on landscape painting. You'll learn, too, from the masters how to express with confidence the many gestures, moods and forms of the human figure on the section on figure painting. In the section on still life, you'll find out how to create interesting set-ups and translate the forms and textures of objects into paint. This book has something for everyone, from the greenest novice to the more experienced painter. It's filled with detailed step-by-step demonstrations, some based on working from photographs and sketches, and others focusing on painting on location and from live models.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.47

  15 artists illustrate the full range of oil painting techniques using step-by-step demonstrations and sequences. The book discusses all aspects of oil painting, including the tools and materials required, with expert advice on how to choose and mix colours and how to prepare the palette. There are sections on preparing a canvas, designing a composition, direct painting, scumbling, blending, layering, glazing, impasto, monotyping, working with light and shadow, handling values, landscape and figure painting, and still life. The artists also illustrate how to develop ideas and solve common painting problems.