Watson-Guptill Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Oil Painting Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Oil Painting

In this treasure trove you'll find an overview of the tools and materials of oil painting, along with advice about color palette, color mixing, and applied color theory. You'll learn about preparing a canvas, designing a composition, direct painting, scumbling, blending, layering, glazing, impasto, monotyping and more. Let the experts show you the most effective ways to work with light and shadow, model forms, handle values, and achieve color harmony, as well as how to develop ideas and solve common painting problems. This book has something for everyone, from the greenest novice to the more experienced painter Hardcover, 256 pages. Watson-Guptill. ISBN 823016064