The Complete Painting Course

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THE COMPLETE PAIIVTIIVG COURSE
by Wendon Blake
With over 700 illustrations
Now the most comprehensive survey of painting techniques is available in one 400 page volume, with 700 illustrations and 50 step-by-step painting demonstrations in full color. This book teaches you how to paint in oil, watercolor, and acrylic—the three most popular media—and covers the five most popular subjects: landscapes, seascapes, portraits, figures, and still lifes.
Four art instruction books by Wendon Blake—The Oil Painting Booi<, The Water-color Painting Book, The Acrylic Painting Book, and The Portrait Painting Book—have been combined to create a single excellent source. This volume's four parts correspond to the original books but the total number of pages has been reduced from 1,000 to less than 500. You'll watch George Cherepov paint landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes in oil; Claude Croney paint landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes... Tovább

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THE COMPLETE PAIIVTIIVG COURSE
by Wendon Blake
With over 700 illustrations
Now the most comprehensive survey of painting techniques is available in one 400 page volume, with 700 illustrations and 50 step-by-step painting demonstrations in full color. This book teaches you how to paint in oil, watercolor, and acrylic—the three most popular media—and covers the five most popular subjects: landscapes, seascapes, portraits, figures, and still lifes.
Four art instruction books by Wendon Blake—The Oil Painting Booi<, The Water-color Painting Book, The Acrylic Painting Book, and The Portrait Painting Book—have been combined to create a single excellent source. This volume's four parts correspond to the original books but the total number of pages has been reduced from 1,000 to less than 500. You'll watch George Cherepov paint landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes in oil; Claude Croney paint landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes in watercolor; and Rudy De Reyna paint similar subjects in acrylic. George Passantino will show you portraits and figures in oil. You'll see each artist proceed from simple step-by-step demonstrations to more complex ones, all the while building on your developing skills. You will learn by doing. Each of the original books, which sold respectively in eight languages, was based on this successful premise. You will be encouraged to work on your own, but you will always have guidelines to which you can easily refer.
With the study of each medium you will learn practical information such as which brushes to select when, and to what effect. You will see how to mix colors, when to mix linseed oil with your oil paints, how much water to use with the water-based paints, and what surfaces to paint on: canvas, paper, board. You'll learn what works and what doesn't. There are tips on matting, framing, storing, and repairing.
In the fourth part of the book, "Portrait and Figure Painting," you will be shown an excellent analysis of head and figure proportion. Passantino takes men and women, boys and girls, with light skin and dark skin, blond hair
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and dark hair, and shows how to capture the variations on canvas. Useful information is also included on lighting portraits and figures, posing them, composing a painting, and sketching in pencil and in oil before you begin.
For the beginner there is a complete course in painting and for the experience artist there is an opportunity to increase one's skills. In both cases The Complete Painting Course provides an indispensable source.
For the beginner there is a complete course in painting and for the experienced artist there is an opportunity to increase one's skills. In both cases The Complete Painting Course provides an indispensable source.
Wendon Blake is the author of many popular books on painting technique, including Acrylic Watercolor Painting, Complete Guide to Acrylic Painting, Creative Color: A Practical Guide for Oil Painters, Landscape Painting in Oil, The Watercolor Painting Book, The Acrylic Painting Book, The Oil Painting Book, and The Portrait and Figure Painting Book. Vissza