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| Oil Painting Techniques: Learn How to Master Oil Painting Working Techniques to Create Your Own Successful Paintings (Artist's Painting Library) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Lewis
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 299670
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.2
ISBN: 0823032612
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.45
EAN: 9780823032617
ASIN: 0823032612
Publication Date: October 1, 1983
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Product Description
Ten top artists show how to master colors and brush-strokes, how to render complete landscapes, countrysides, seascapes, sharp focus, still lifes, and the human figure.
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 not THAT bad... March 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm pretty much a complete novice in any form of art, so this book was quite helpful to me. There are several parts I found useful-- how to hold and handle the brush to achieve different effects, comparisons of student paintings to similar professional works, separating 'value' from 'intensity,' etc. I can imagine this book being a waste of time for people who've been in relatively good art classes or who've already done enough painting to have learned all of this already, but if you would consider yourself to be an amateur, it can't hurt to give it a go.
 Very Disappointed February 3, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was rather disappointed with this book and do not recommend it. The only techniques in this book was useless bits of information like a simple color chart, how to hold a paintbrush, and what you should have in your paint-box. There were no techniques on how to oil paint. The book consisted of paintings by different artists being critiqued. The book should be titled something like, "Let's try to talk up eleven artists, ten if we subtract the writer". With the exception of a few pieces by Ken Davies, the art work in the book is very amateur looking itself. I guess that is why they put them into a book and tried to talk them up. It really deserves minus 2 stars.
Not much help for me March 20, 2000
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have not painted in over 30 years, and hoped that this would bring me up to speed. It didn't. Probably the least useful book on painting on my bookshelf. I'm not sure what this book is supposed to do for the reader. It didn't help me in the least.
With not much to go on. November 26, 1999
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't have much to go on, but I quickly browsed this book in an art store and found it quite good as far as simplicity and "what the beginning artist should have." I would recommend it to the beginner without reservation.
Don't even think about it November 3, 1999
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Is it possible to give negative stars?I'm so embarassed about buying this book. My stupidity is the only explanation... It's not about techniques. It wasn't even written by the artists. It's a running commentary on paintings. The average number of "intermediate" steps per painting is about 4-5. Each "step" is actually a different painting started from scratch, so there's no way to compare what changed between steps cause it all did. So much was skipped between enormous amounts of work they felt guilty and tried to make up for it with such sage advice as "Mr. Jones prefers to thin his paint with 1/3 damar, 1/3 turpentine, 1/3 linseed oil". Or "when sketching during sharp-focused-realism be precise". Or "shadows made it look 3 dimensional" I'm exaggerating but I think you get the point.
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