Clifton, Sherry Stone
Oil Painting For Dummies
Completely free of arty jargon, this full-color guide has all the hands-on instruction you need to master the basics. You’ll see how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create stunning compositions. You’ll also find everything you need to know about oil paints, solvents, and pigments; brushes, palettes, and painting surfaces; and how to keep costs down at the art supply store. Discover how to:
- Choose the right supplies
- Set up your studio and care for your equipment
- Handle your materials safely
- Develop your design and composition skills
- Make practice sketches and studies
- Use broken stroke, dry brush, glazing, scraffito and other brush strokes
- Try out different compositions
- Mix any color you want
- Simplify tricky still-life subjects
- Paint landscapes and common objects out doors
- Paint portraits and the human form
Complete with handy color chart, basic materials list, and a very useful viewing square, Oil Painting For Dummies is the fun and easy way to discover your inner artist!
Keywords: Oil Painting, Painting, Oil Painting Techniques, Oil Painting Instruction, Acrylic, Colors, Canvas, Drawing, Art, Art-Instruction, Paints, Oil Paints, Gesso, palette, Arts & Crafts, Crafts, Paint
- Author(s)
- Clifton, Sherry Stone
- Giddings, Anita Marie
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 303 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118051993
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470182307