Secrets from an Oil Painting Diary

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This is a step-by-step record of the methods and techniques used to create a series of landscape paintings. In ten oil painting demonstrations that use the landscape as their subject, the author details the intricacies of every brushstroke and colour application. Incorporating both Old Master and Impressionistic styles, each work is accompanied by a page that shows the colour mixtures and brushwork. The text also covers basic materials and methods, aesthetics, ideas and outdoor painting.