The Encyclopedia of Oil Techniques - A Unique Visual Directory of Oil Painting Techniques, with Guidance on How to Use Them

This comprehensive guide to oil painting for beginners and experienced artists alike offers practical advice from an award-winning professional artist and features a gallery of inspirational examples.

Practicing painter Jeremy Galton’s artist guide offers an A-Z section to get you started with oil painting techniques, as well as a section on themes featuring an illustrated gallery of paintings by well-known artists and informative step-by-step demonstrations to understand techniques in context.

In this oil painting book, you’ll learn:

• Basic techniques for building a painting
• When to work "wet into wet"
• How to make your brushwork describe forms and textures
• How to combine oil paints with other media and tools
• How to apply the techniques you’ve learned to interpretations of a subject

Oil paint is such a responsive and versatile medium that no two painters need use it in exactly the same way. This oil painting book will equip you to approach any subject, whether landscape, portrait or still life, and make it your own.