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Painting landscapes in Oil

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This book "Painting Landscapes in Oil" is a practical guide to the techniques, materials, use of color and the essential elements of Landscape Painting.
Just starting out and having trouble applying paint? Do you have difficulties in working alla prima? Do you have problems with color and its mixtures? Do you not know how a work is projected from beginning to end?
If so, this book can help you because it contains a lot of information, hundreds of tips and advice, to begin the practice of oil painting successfully and dispel the doubts that everyone who begins in this pictorial technique has.
This illustrated book will guide you step by step through his approach to Landscape, from reviewing a composition, to especially looking at the use of color, its mixtures and its strategies with suggested practical exercises to learn all about basic color theory, which is the basis of the artist's craft of painting.
You will find topics such as the following:
  • Everything you need to know to acquire the first materials: lists of colors, brushes, and supports, in addition to other necessary elements.
  • How to start using paint, essential good practices to have a firm base and avoid beginner difficulties.
  • You will find a complete detailed chapter on the use of color through practical exercises that will help you clearly understand the language of color and more importantly: how to use it in landscape mixes. Step by step explanations on how to achieve color contrast or harmony in a painting..
  • The essentials of how charcoal is drawn, a very suitable technique to combine with oil.
  • Description of the different ways of applying paint and various oil techniques.
  • Explanation of how to paint the elements of the landscape with many secrets, tips, and advice for a clear understanding.
  • Complete landscapes painted step by step from start to finish. Each exercise has a detailed list of colors and their mixtures, as well as the techniques used, illustrated by photographs.

In short, this is a very informative and color oriented book to inspire beginners and more advanced painters alike.

Start now to enjoy all the information contained in this book, which will help you on your creative path to express your personal vision of the world in this incredible technique, chosen by the Great Masters of the Art.



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