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#10

Masters Of Water-Colour Painting

Geoffrey Holme

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Portrait Painting Atelier

Suzanne Brooker
Domenic Cretara

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Portrait Painting Atelier

The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in the old ways in this country and throughout the world. Coming out of this dedicated movement, Portrait Painting Atelier is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old Masters’ technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a process that builds from the transparent dark areas t...

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 #9

The Encyclopedia of Oil Painting Techniques

Jeremy Galton

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#8

Landscape Painting

Mitchell Albala

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#7

Modern painting

George Moore

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#6

The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted

Kathleen Staiger

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The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted

Kathleen Staiger

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#4

Painting Abstracts

Rolina van Vliet

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#3

Acrylic Painting For Dummies

Colette Pitcher

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#2

Painting (Documents of Contemporary Art)

Terry R. Myers

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The sequel to "Fractured Allegiance"

Mind Games and Malice by Robert Cassady

Where the Lord of the Rings... meets 1984.

Freethinkers - beware!

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Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

Claire Watson Garcia

Painting
#1

1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die

Stephen Farthing

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