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Title: Oil Painting Secrets from a Master by Linda Cateura ISBN: 0-8230-3279-5 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent - Not for Beginners though
Comment: I am always skeptical of books which are meant to teach you to paint. I myself am an artist and I've learned the only way to paint is to do it and do it often. But his book is excellent because it helps you learn to "see" things you might otherwise miss. It is not for beginners but for those with some painting experience. This is one of the only books on painting I would recommend, besides perhaps, Gregg Kreutz's Problem Solving for Oil Painting, another excellent book, very similar to this one. Coincidently, Leffle [sic?], whose paintings are the ones featured in this book, was a teacher of Kreutz at the Art Students League of New York.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: This book focusses intially on the process of thinking that should be adopted while painting and during composition, which is quite helpful. The rest of the book are filled with tips on brushstroke, color, chiaroscuro, etc which are also occasionally educational. However, the tips are sometimes confusing and not very clearly articulated. The drawback of the book is that the quality of the prints are nor esp good and the tips, though sometimes helpful, are neither thorough nor are they put down in a very orderly manner. Some of the tips do not focus on the "why" of the same, but just that they should be adopted. If a person is looking for an in-depth technique book, this is not it. Intermediate painters, rather than beginners, would find this book to be of some help. But neither does this book contain any great inputs for artists who have already attained some degee of expertise.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very Disappointed
Comment: I was very disappointed with this book. The quality of the paintings that are reproduced in this book are so poor. I have an entire library of painting books, and I have never seen one that is such poor quality. Part of the way that I learn from a painting book is by examining the artwork after reading the copy. As with many artists, I tend to learn much better visually then from straight text. If you learn that way as well, then this is not the book for you. I can't even begin to describe how poor these reproductions look. They are blurry with poor color and very distant. What a shame. This appears to be a great artist, and I can't understand how he could have allowed such a poor quality book such as this to represent his work. I was also disappointed by the way that the book frequently will refer to a painting that the artist critiqued in a class, but then never show the painting. I am such a visual learner, that this did not work for me. I think that this book is best for artists that can learn easily from text and are not bothered by the lack of quality visual aids.
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Title: Problem Solving for Oil Painters by Gregg Kreutz ISBN: 0823040976 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter by Steve Allrich ISBN: 0823032698 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How to Paint Like the Old Masters by Joseph Sheppard ISBN: 082302671X Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Brushwork Essentials: How to Render Expressive Form and Texture With Every Stroke by Mark Christopher Weber ISBN: 1581801688 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.99 |
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Title: Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light & Color by Kevin D. MacPherson ISBN: 1581800533 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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