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| The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathleen Staiger
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 77941
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0823032590
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.45
EAN: 9780823032594
ASIN: 0823032590
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
Release Date: July 1, 2006
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Product Description
Did you ever wish you could go to a really good art school and learn how to paint in oil? Or perhaps you have painted for years and are still struggling with color mixing and wish you could find a good teacher to help. In the Oil Painting Course Youve Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger gives you a complete painting course you can take at home. Crystal clear, step-by-step lessons build from learning about light and shadow, brush control, and foolproof color mixing, to still life painting, landscapes, and portraitsevery topic is covered in clear text, diagrams, illustrations, and demonstrations, with guided projects in every lesson. Tips and extra help sections appear throughout the book to help with common problems. Staiger has taught oil painting for more than thirty-five years; many of her students are now exhibiting and selling their paintings. Every painter from beginning hobby painters to BFA graduates has questions. Here atlast are the answers!
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 "The Oil Painting Course You've always Wanted" by Kathleen Lochen Staiger" It doesn't just sit on my bookshelf like many others December 3, 2008
The ideal instructional book for me and probably for you if you are a beginner like myself and possibly an experienced artist who never had any formal art training or simply needs a refresher course. Just as the title states, "The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted" For me, I knew nothing about oil painting and was interested in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop. Each computer program has a auto effects mode in which a non artist can simulate oil paintings, drawings etc., however I felt with some painting instruction I would be able to use all effects manually and manipulate a photo in many mediums and create something special and unique. I enrolled in a "Painting with the Old masters" college course. I now enjoy painting with oils, but due to my lack of basic knowledge in the arts (I knew nothing) it became at times very frustrating. I already own many books on the subject, but very few had what I was looking for or explained it in a manner in which it kept my interest and appealled to me like this one has. I actually looked for add'l books by this author after purchasing this one. My only regret is I could have saved $$$ if I had purchased it though Amazon. This book had everything that I was looking for, from color mixing, proper use and techniques of the brush, color,composition and material use. Landscape,Portrait and Still Life painting as well as basic drawing, light etc... A perfect addition to whatever I may take on next. This book by author Kathleen Lochen Staiger is one that is always near by and not sitting on the bookshelf like many others. I'm very happy with my purchase of this book.
Great for learning and reference October 28, 2008
I learned to paint 2 years ago and knew very little about oil painting. I purchased this and other books along with taking many workshops and this is the only book I now use for reference in a somewhat advanced stage. As I learned more about painting I also went back and re-read this book and did the suggested practices from front to back (as I did the first time)and everything became much clearer. I hope you get as much knowledge and enjoy this book as much as I have!
far better than the rest August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been painting for a while and wanted to more help with mixing flesh and shadow colors. In her book Steiger extensively elaborates the mixing of chroma, value and shadow. She brakes it down into little bits so there is no way that you'll have to guess the rest. Also this book goes from lesson lesson with exercise, of which i have done a few and find that she really has a good lesson-plan. Definitely good for the beginner of people who have been wingeing it [like me] and want to know how to paint with after a real lesson.
Oil painting can be tricky - this book helps control oils November 24, 2007
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
I got this book from the library. I always knew I could draw, and I always wanted to oil paint. I have a lot of books on oil painting, but I still struggle. Oil paints are tricky, sort of like playing the violin: you have to learn to control them before you start creating with them.
Now, it IS for beginners, but it also says for "experienced" because she shows you tricks that maybe you didn't cover in other classes.
She incorporates drawing lessons with the painting lessons. If you can't draw and shade a sphere, how are you going to understand a bush? She doesn't just have list of brushes, but she has exercises on how to blend paint with them. Each exercise in the book builds on the next.
It is true that you are not going to paint a masterpiece with this book, but I do think you will say, "Oh, that's the problem", and then you can move forward with your own talent.
She has one whole page on Taming Thalo Green, which no one else has in their books. She has a shading lesson in primary colors, and in secondary colors. She tells you how to dull a color without changing the value (mix it's exact complimentary in the same value, then add it). She explains glazing and scumbling. All the exercises are simple, so that if you are talented or not, you can do them. For example, she doesn't have you glaze a portrait like Rembrandt, but an apple.
As she gets to harder things, she introduces more drawing. For example, when she gets to landscape, she talks about drawing perspective, as well as atmospheric perspective. In landscapes, she explains the tricks for trees and rocks (do the darks first). When she gets to portraits, then she talks about drawing the face. I don't think her portraits are all that hot, but she shows the steps then you can do them too, and infuse your talent.
You will not create a masterpiece with this book, but you will have tools to create your own masterpiece because you won't be stumped with atmospheric perspective, how to do trees, how to make a shadow, etc. Just like you can't play the violin if you don't know where the notes are and how to get a good sound out of the bow, you can't oil paint if you don't know things like how Alizarin Crimson is going to behave differently from Cadmium Red Light. She will help you with this.
She has taught beginning oil painting for 30 years, so she anticipates your problems and questions. Oil will not longer be something to fight with, but something that will do your bidding.
A new era in art September 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not only was l able to correct old bad old habits, l have learnt an incredible amount from this art instruction book. Highly recommended to both beginners and accomplished artists.
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