To grasp oil paints’ unlimited potential, go to the professionals who understand its intricacies. This guide presents a variety of artists who explain their techniques for creating compelling images. Look through a gallery of oil paintings and exult in their richness of color. Observe traditional and new approaches to form, surface, and mood. Large reproductions accompany details, sketches, and color analyses, and there’s illustrated technical information for different levels of expertise.
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Philcox begins with a discussion of color and its uses, noting that painters used oils for trompe l'oeil accuracy then changed in the late nineteenth century to the more contemporary impressionist uses of broad dabs of paint that fuse in the viewer's eye. Analyses of representative works concentrate on the "seeing, thinking, and acting" steps of painting development, then move into a consideration of formal construction, such as the classic "pyramid" composition. Surface, an exploration of which follows, has also undergone change as seventh-century attempts to minimize the appearance of brushwork gave way to more textured, painterly styles, some using a palette knife. Philcox moves on to mood--how to achieve reflective quiet or to exude energy--via increasingly sophisticated analyses that emphasize the influence of classic masters while keeping focused on the essentials. With an artists' glossary, this generously illustrated, beautifully designed, full-color resource will likely see great demand from painters at all skill levels. Whitney Scott
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About the Author
Theodora Philcox is a full time lecturer in Art History and writes regularly for a number of magazines and journals, including Leisure Painter, The Artist Magazine and The Art Book.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Very nice little book,
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This review is from: Still Life in Oils: An Insight Into the Artist's Creative Process -- Seeing, Thinking, Acting (Creative Painting Series) (Paperback)
This book visits many different approaches to still-life painting with color photos everywhere. As an artist the pictures are what I study. In this book it is very interesting to read about each artists thought processes. It is not all technique orietnted it goes deeper. A great value.
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A helpful, well laid out book,
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This review is from: Still Life in Oils: An Insight Into the Artist's Creative Process -- Seeing, Thinking, Acting (Creative Painting Series) (Paperback)
Theodora Philcox has created a very helpful book on the still life. There is a wide range of styles and several very fine artists. Philcox takes the artists' own explanations of their techniques and adds some of her own helpful comments and observations. Styles of art are juxtaposed giving the reader a good view of different approaches to their art. Of special interest is the work of artist Timothy C. Tyler whose realistic and brushy artwork steals the show.
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Thoughtful,
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This review is from: Still Life in Oils: An Insight Into the Artist's Creative Process -- Seeing, Thinking, Acting (Creative Painting Series) (Paperback)
Very Good! Not about technique, there are too many books about that. This is about thinking!
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