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 enlarge | Author: Kathleen Staiger
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 23842
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0823032590
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.45
EAN: 9780823032594
ASIN: 0823032590
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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Condition: Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: V20081117044309S
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 Artistic Masterpiece! May 7, 2007
Budding Artist (Aberdeen, MD USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book IS the oil painting course I've always wanted. I've taken a oil painting course at my local community college, but did not recieve the detailed instruction this book offers. I highly recommend it for the beginner painter. I also recommend Color Mixing Recipes by Walter Foster. It really helps you to get the color just right. It has an index on everything from apples to wet sand.Color Mixing Recipes
 great starter but you'll need more books April 8, 2007
Stormy Koeniger (Chicago, IL)
This book was a great starter book and was exceptionally helpful in learning where to start and how to mix colors. It also provides a few step by step classes to get you started. It is a true beginners book, but you'll be looking for new inspiration after you've spent some time with it.
Amazingly good! March 22, 2007
Cynthia Adams (Round Lake Heights, IL)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I would encourage anyone interested in purchasing art books to go to your local library and check some out before you purchase. That is what I did and that is why I bought this wonderful book. Her presentations are very clear and easy to understand. She has carefully constructed lessons, just as if you were taking a class. I like the structure. I like the fact that there is a whole lesson spent learning to use the brush to achieve different techniques. Each lesson takes me about 2-3 hours to complete, but when I am done I feel I have actually made some progress. The lessons build on previous lessons so you actually can see progress from week-to-week. Finally I am sticking to a schedule and actually painting instead of just thinking about it. The practice is what brings the improvement. Her book just makes it easier.
great book January 6, 2007
G. C. Majka (Fredonia,NY)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm a begining painter and I felt this book helped me get off to a good start. It helped me learn the mixing of colors (which I refer to often when using the greens) I liked the practice exercises which helped me to visualize the highlights and shading. The first landscape I did was the step-by-step in the book and it turned out ok for my first. I would recommend this book!!
 not going to create a masterpiece with this January 5, 2007
Boris (London UK)
29 out of 37 found this review helpful
I gave this away to charity soon after buying it. The main problem with this book is that all of the paintings that were used as the basis of the guided excercises were just so dreadful that I had zero interest in putting the time into doing them. I'm sure the author has some talent as a teacher and even as an artist, but they looked quite amatuer to me, and if you're going to imitate a dreadful painting to learn techniques, I could only imagine you'd end up a dreadful painter.... br /However - it's all a matter of taste in the end. Not for me.
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