By: Angela Gair

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It's the medium of the masters - so join the great painters from Rembrandt to Pollack. You can minimise your expense by starting out with only the essentials, and by comparing grades of paint, brushes, palettes, supports, and accessories to find the best value for your needs. A gallery of paintings by contemporary artists will inspire you to cover each step, from brushwork to underpainting.

Designed to help the beginner start painting immediately without overwhelming them with theory, the books in this series contain a mixture of projects and inspirational "gallery" examples, encouraging readers to move on to build up a range of skills and techniques.

This title covers oils.

Topics include:

• basic techniques
• storing pastels
• toning papers and boards
• fixing and squaring up
• information on types of paints, paper and brushes to use.

Ten projects aim to develop skills such as expressive strokes, blending, layering, broken colour, scumbling, feathering, hatching and mixing pastels with other media.

About the Author

Angela Gair is an established painter, writer and editor. She studied fine art and then spent several years painting and teaching in Italy, Spain, and France. She is the author of Watercolour, Drawing, Acrylics and Pastels in the Beginner's Guide Series.

Materials and Equipment
Basic Techniques
Gallery
Techniques

Painting "Alla Prima"
Impasto
Using a Toned Ground
Working "Fat Over Lean"
Expressive Brushwork
Scumbling
Developing the Painting
Knife Painting
Blending
Underpainting

Index

ISBN: 9781853686023
ISBN-10: 1853686026
Series: Beginner's Guides (Sterling Publishing)
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Published: 5th May 2011
Dimensions (cm): 26.365 x 19.558  x 0.787
Weight (kg): 0.345