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Creative Oils
By Gemma Guasch and Josep Asunción

Publisher New Holland
Edition Paperback

Creative Oils is a collection of oil painting projects expressly designed to get the most out of the reader’s artistic potential. An introductory section featuring basic materials and their application is followed by 14 projects showcasing different oil painting techniques. Every technique is explained in full detail, enabling the reader to explore a rich world of experimentation. Each project is based on an example from a painter who has applied the technique in their own way, providing a visual model from which the work develops step by step. This title is an excellent tool of consultation for anyone who wishes to go beyond mimetic painting and use oils as a medium of expression and personal development; Creative Oils provides the technical expertise needed to make this possible.
Price: £12.99

Painting Mood and Atmosphere in Oils
by Carolyn Lewis

Publisher North Light
Edition Paperback

Combining technical mastery with emotional impact to create powerful, evocative scenes is the ultimate goal of every landscape painter. This book helps painters achieve that goal with 13 step-by-step demonstrations covering a variety of subjects and scenes. It is a practical, down-to-earth guide to the art of capturing emotion, including valuable tips on painting from memory and painting from photographs. Also included are resourceful sections on oil painting basics, including brushwork, composition and colour mixing.
Price: £15.99

How to Paint Like the Old Masters
by Joseph Sheppard

Publisher GMC
Edition Paperback

You may have stood in a museum marvelling at a painting by one of the great masters—Rembrandt, Titian, Vermeer—and thought, “How did he do it?” Or perhaps you wished you could slip back in time and watch a master paint—seeing for yourself how he achieved those stunning effects. Of course, this isn’t possible, but in this unique book, Joseph Sheppard, a leading contemporary painter, shows you in detailed, full-colour demonstrations the variety of oil painting techniques perfected by the old masters in the 16th and 17th centuries—the golden age of oil painting. The techniques Sheppard describes cover the full spectrum from the direct painting (alla prima) of Rubens and Hals to the elaborate underpainting and glazing methods of Rembrandt and Titian.
Price: £14.99

Mix Your Own Oil Colours
by Jeremy Galton

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Oil Painting Materials
by William F Powell

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Oil Painting Techniques
by William F Powell

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Painting in Oil
by William Palluth

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Capturing the Moment in Oils
by David Curtis

Publisher Batsford
Edition Hardback

One of the attractions of painting outdoors is the challenge of capturing the spirit of a place – changing light, weather and transient conditions demand particular painting skills if they are to be interpreted effectively. In this fascinating book, David Curtis shows how he achieves such expressive and original results using drawings, paintings and stage-by-stage examples. He gives detailed explanations of his two main working methods – for plein-air paintings and for studio compositions – as well as plenty of helpful guidance and advice on choosing materials, exploring techniques, selecting ideas, composition, colour and tone and associated topics.
Price: £18.99

Plein Air Painting in Oil
by Frank Serrano

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

The Encyclopedia of Oil Painting Techniques
by Jeremy Galton

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Oil paint is such a responsive and versatile medium that no two painters need use it in exactly the same way, and since its invention in Renaissance times it has never lost its popularity with artists. In the A-Z section of the book, Jeremy Galton, a practising painter, explains how to build up a painting, how and when to work "wet into wet", and how to make your brushwork describe forms and textures. He also provides a wealth of stimulating ideas such as combining oil paints with other media, mixing paint with sand and sawdust and applying it with knives, rags or the fingers. In the second part of the book, Themes, you can see the techniques in context.
Price: £12.99

The Oil Painter's Bible
by Marilyn Scott

Publisher Search Press
Edition Hardback

Oil paint is such a responsive and versatile medium that no two painters need use it in exactly the same way, and since its invention in Renaissance times it has never lost its popularity with artists. Amateurs also find it appealing, both because it is enjoyable to use and because mistakes can be so easily rectified. This compact book explains all the materials, techniques, and different approaches to painting with oils, and includes illustrated step-by-step projects to complete.
Price: £12.99

Water Mixable Oils
by Michael Sanders

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Using this versatile and easy-to-use medium, Michael Sanders shows you how to master water mixable oils - with hints, tips and guidelines on glazing, blending, scumbling, stippling, impasto and more. The paints work just like conventional oils and their consistency, lightfastness, transparency/opacity and performance allow artists to use them for all oil painting techniques. Landscapes, flowers, buildings and more are included, providing an ideal guide and an inspirational introduction to these envioronmentally friendly paints.
Price: £6.99

Colour and Light in Oils
By Nicholas Verrall and Robin Capon

Publisher Batsford
Edition Hardback

Often seen as dark and gloomy, in fact, oils can be used to create colourful and light paintings that are wonderfully expressive. One significant characteristic of oil paint is its richness and depth of colour, something that is of particular interest to Nicholas Verrall. In this book he discusses his working methods and the importance of colour, at the same time placing these issues within the general context of painting in oils, with all that this has to offer. Colour and Light in Oils includes information, demonstrations and many inspirational finished paintings to help painters understand the value of colour in interpreting ideas with feeling and impact.
Price: £17.99

Artists' Questions Answered: Oils
by Rose Cuthbert

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

These titles are aimed as guides that answer all the questions which artists have about getting the best results from their chosen medium. Laid out in a user-friendly way, the books are styled in a question-and-answer format, illustrated with correct and incorrect ways of using the tools and getting the most from different techniques. The authors tackle the problems that serious beginners and amateur artists are likely to encounter and offer a variety of solutions.
Price: £12.99

Capturing Radiant Light & Colour
by Susan Sarback

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Oil and pastel painters will learn new ways of seeing and painting light and colour. Readers will expand their colour perception and learn to bring this new awareness into their paintings. The author uses the full-colour seeing method, a way to see and paint colour as affected by the surrounding light. The book contains examples and demonstrations of landscapes and still lifes so readers will learn how to interpret this method of seeing to any subject.
Price: £14.99

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