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Informationen zum Autor Anita Giddings and Sherry Stone Clifton are award-winning artist-educators who have made careers out of teaching beginning artists of all aspirations. Klappentext Packed with FULL COLOR, easy-to-complete projects The fun and easy way® to discover your inner artist through oil painting! Have you always wanted to paint with oil? Now you can! This friendly guide gives you all the hands-on instruction you need to master the basics. You'll see how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create the right composition. And you'll practice your new skills by painting a variety of subjects, from portraits to still lifes to landscapes. Discover how to: Choose the right supplies Develop your design and composition skills Practice sketches and brush strokes Set up your studio and care for your equipment Work on a variety of compositions Zusammenfassung Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach that starts you off on the right foot! helps you build your skills one at a time! and gives you plenty of exercises to develop your craft. That's what you'll find in Oil Painting For Dummies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I: Getting Your Feet Wet in Oil Paint. Chapter 1: So You Want to Paint. Chapter 2: Getting to Know Your Oils. Chapter 3: Assembling Your Materials. Chapter 4: Preparing to Paint. Chapter 5: Walking Through the Painting Process. Part II: Break Out the Brushes and Start Painting! Chapter 6: A Study in Black and White. Chapter 7: Mixing Color and Three Oil Studies. Chapter 8: Putting Paint to Canvas: Brushstrokes and Glazing Techniques. Part III: People, Places, and Things. Chapter 9: Tricky Still Life Subjects Made Easy. Chapter 10: Take It Outside: Landscapes. Chapter 11: Basic Portrait Painting 101. Chapter 12: Beyond Portraiture: More on Painting People. Part IV: Color and Design. Chapter 13: Planning Your Painting. Chapter 14: Shape, Space, and the Surface of Your Painting. Chapter 15: How the Parts of a Composition Work Together. Chapter 16: Communicating Ideas Visually. Chapter 17: Using Color with Confidence. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 18: Ten Strategies to Immediately Improve Your Painting. Chapter 19: Ten Artists You Should Know: The Painter's Painters. Index. ...
