This book is a unique step-by-step visual directory of all the key oil-painting techniques. It includes an inspirational gallery showing how the techniques can be put into practice. Techniques include dabbing, sgraffito, corrections, impasto, texturing, finger painting, pointillism, supports, brushwork, scraping back, wet in wet, knife painting, underpainting, alla prima and more.
Features:
- Demonstrates the classic way of building up a painting
- Practical advice on canvases, boards and painting mediums
- Encourages the artist to explore new techniques and approaches
- Shows how brushwork can be made more expressive
- Hints on how to get the best out of a landscape, portrait or still life subject
- A gallery of paintings by well-known artists shows the craft of painting exploited individual ways
