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Oil painting

Chaplin, Mike2005
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For an amateur artist, oils can present a daunting challenge, but in this book Mike Chaplin demystifies the business of oil painting. He leads the reader through assembling the necessary equipment to learning the basic techniques and accumulating the skill to create paintings, with all the exciting qualities that this medium has to offer, by looking at palette layout; basic mark-making; tone, colour and perspective; rhythm and shape; still life, figures and landscapes; composition. No matter what your style or temperament, you will be able to find a way of using oils that allows you to express yourself in this fascinating and historic medium.
Main title:
Oil painting / Mike Chaplin with Diana Vowles
Imprint:
Devizes, Wiltshire : Selectabook Ltd, 2005
Collation:
48p. ; 220 x 285 mm
Series title:
Notes:
First published 2004 by Arcturus Publishing Limited, London.
ISBN:
9781841932705
Dewey class:
751.45
Language:
English
BRN:
1783416
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