Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Oil Painting: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Oil Painting
This paperback anthology presents lessons on traditional and unconventional oil painting techniques such as preparing canvas, designing the composition, massing values, building layers, scumbling, glazing and painting with a knife. Also included are helpful instructions on using light and shadow and creating landscape, figure, portrait and still-life paintings. Full-color illustrations and photos of the author' s and selected artists' paintings, with detailed captions provide further guidance on the techniques featured.