Oil Painting for Dummies (Anita Giddings and Sherry Clifton) Reviews

Costs:

• RRP $24.99 from publisher Dummies.com
• $15.54 from Amazon.com

Full colour easy-to-complete projects:

• 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 outdoors
• Paint portraits and the human form

Chapters include:

1. So you want to paint
2. Getting to know your oils
3. Assembling your materials
4. Preparing to Paint
5. Walking through the painting process
6. A study in black and white
7. Mixing Color and three oil studies
   • Project: Using the color chart to mix the color you want
   • Project: Finding your local color: an analogous painting
   • Project: Using complementary colors
8. Putting paint to canvas: brushstrokes and glazing techniques
9. Tricky still life subjects made easy
10. Take it outside: landscapes
11. Basic portrait painting 101
12. Beyond portraiture: more on painting people
13. Planning your painting
14. Shape, space and the surface of your painting
15. How the parts of a composition work together
16. Communicating ideas visually
17. Using color with confidence
18. Ten strategies to immediately improve your painting
19. Ten artists you should know: the painter's painters

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