Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Techniques - Oil Painting

If you have ever wanted to control your art so you can paint anything-and paint it well-this book is for you The mediums are oil, watercolor, and contour drawing, but this is a book about making good paintings, not about a particular medium. The subject matter is broad, ranging from still lifes to figures and portraits, to landscapes. Again, the point is that if you can paint, you can paint anything But you must never feel compelled to simply paint was is before you. You must feel free to paint not what you see, but what you want to see-the way you want it to look-and this book shows you...

Charles Reid says you don't have to be a botanist to paint flowers beautifully. Rather than produce anatomical paintings, it's far more important to capture the quality, the feeling, and the spirit of the flowers. In this book, Reid turns his skillful eye and clear, helpful teaching methods to painting flowers in oil paints.

Beginning with a detailed discussion of materials and palettes, you will go on to learn a bit about flowers and flower parts in general, as well as brush techniques like drybrushing, scumbling, and pointillism. Then, with plenty of examples and guided...

If you've ever struggled with identifying the problems in your oil paintings--and how to fix them--then this book is for you. Not only will you learn to solve those pesky painting problems, you'll learn how to avoid them in the first place.

Here you'll get to know the right way to put a painting together from the start, beginning with the essential elements of successful oil painting:

• Composition
• Value
• Color
• Temperature
• Edge quality
• Drawing

After a brief review of materials and techniques, you'll learn to make...

Beware the properties of color as the Ides of March Except for the never ending challenge concerning the subject one chooses to paint, the next really difficult problem one can encounter is how to gray or alter a color value without destroying the basic color involved. Without the proper preparation or adequate decision making process, an unwanted "muddy" color will too often be the ultimate paint altering outcome. And who needs that When one attempts mixing gray with a given color, be it high or low key, establishing the appropriate shade of gray is an imperative need-to-know process,...

Former ILM matte painter Frank Ordaz dazzles the viewer with gorgeous landscape paintings in this beautiful book. Complete with insightful descriptions by the artist for each work, THE LAND ICONIC is a visual treat for artists and lovers of art everywhere. Frank's work shows why he was such an asset as a matte painter for LucasFilm on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Star Trek and more. Enjoy the beauty of California, the Grand Canyon, and beyond through the eyes of this great master painter, Frank Ordaz. 124 pages,...

"I feel that God's sunlight on a single blade of grass is such a miracle and so difficult to capture in paint, it is worth a lifetime of trying"--Paul Strisik

Legendary artist Paul Strisik was not the kind of artist you'd find cooped up inside a studio. As one of the great plein air painters of his generation, Paul preferred to be outdoors using the sun to light his subjects. His years of experience in capturing that natural light are offered here in Capturing Light in Oils.

In these pages, Paul Strisik presents a step-by-step approach to using the three most powerful tools an...