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My Art Book on Oil Painting

Learn to Oil Paint with This Great Fine Art Book
 
Many of the demonstrations within this site and my other site on oil painting demonstrations are in this oil painting text book, Oil Paintings from your Garden by Rachel Shirley, published by the Guild of Master Crafstman Publications Limited in 2002. it is jam-packed full of advice for the oil painter from the beginner to the advanced. Numerous step by step oil painting demonstrations are featured with hundreds of photographs. 

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Oil Paintings from your Garden

  
£6 for UK purchases including postage
£15 for overseas destinations including postage
Or find a bargain from Ebay by clicking on the image
Prices include postage and packing
 
Note, recommended retail price is £16.99 for the book alone!
 
This book is available, brand new and in pristine condition, carefully packaged (signed by the author with a personal dedication if requested)
 
Cheaper postage for multiple purchase to the same destination is available.
 
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Step by step oil painting demonstrations

Oil painting medic

 
 
 
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Features include: Tips for the beginners on buying and preparing art materials, practical advice on finding inspiration in the garden, numerous step by step demos with colour photographs and illustrations, making the most of photographs, various techniques such as alla prima, glazing and tonking, and invaluable advice on the care and preservation of the paintings. 

Vital Statistics

 

Dimensions: 21cm x 28 cm x 1cm

ISBN: 1-86108-246-O

Published by the Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Limited (2002 and reprinted 2003)

Pages: 172


 
 Chapters covered:
  • Beginner's guide to oil painting materials, covering brushes, canvases and gessoes
  • Guide to colour mixing
  • Where to find inspiration in the garden
  • How to make a viewfinder
  • Composing a painting
  • Advice for accurate drawing
  • Mixing greens
  • Setting one's self up in the garden
  • Completing the first oil painting in the garden
  • Floral oil painting including petunias, sunflowers and clematis
  • Painting lawns, trees, figures, flowers and items in the garden
  • Oil painting techniques including glazing, impasto and Sgraffito
  • Painting light and shadow
  • Painting fruit including strawberries and tomatoes
  • Subject matter in the autumn
  • Painting snow in the garden
  • How to paint children and other figures in the garden
  • Skylines and sunsets from the garden
  • Care of the paintings including varnishing
  • Advice on presentation including framing the oil paintings
  • And lots more! 
£10 for UK purchases
£15 for overseas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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