This concise introduction to oil painting contains everything a beginner needs to know. After a brief look at the history of the medium, it explains how to select, use, and care for oil painting materials and tools. Many useful tips are included about composition, colour theory, and the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Painting exercises begin with painting a sphere and a cube in one colour plus white. Readers later mix warm, cool and neutral ranges of colours from three colours plus white, and they finally paint a still life using all colours.
- ISBN10 0823032779
- ISBN13 9780823032778
- Publish Date 1 May 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 June 2000
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications
- Imprint Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English