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Oil Painting Essentials

Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors

Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors

By Gregg Kreutz

By Gregg Kreutz

By Gregg Kreutz

By Gregg Kreutz

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Category: Art

Category: Art

Paperback $25.99

May 24, 2016 | ISBN 9780804185431

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May 24, 2016 | ISBN 9780804185448

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    About Oil Painting Essentials

    An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.

    Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor Gregg Kreutz shows how a multi-genre approach can dramatically improve your painting skills. Arranged by category, each chapter covers both the essentials specific to that subject matter and those that apply to all genres.  

    Through step-by-step lessons and examples from his own oil paintings, Kreutz shows how you can strengthen your skillset for one genre by painting in another. This comprehensive exploration of the conceptual and practical issues behind oil painting provides all of the tools and encouragement you need to successfully take on any type of oil painting.

    About Oil Painting Essentials

    An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.

    Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor Gregg Kreutz shows how a multi-genre approach can dramatically improve your painting skills. Arranged by category, each chapter covers both the essentials specific to that subject matter and those that apply to all genres.  

    Through step-by-step lessons and examples from his own oil paintings, Kreutz shows how you can strengthen your skillset for one genre by painting in another. This comprehensive exploration of the conceptual and practical issues behind oil painting provides all of the tools and encouragement you need to successfully take on any type of oil painting.

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    About Gregg Kreutz

    Gregg Kreutz has won numerous honors as a student and professional painter. His paintings have been represented in many juried shows. Gregg is represented by the Fanny Garver Gallery as many others, including the Grand Central Galleries, New York, O’Brien’s… More about Gregg Kreutz

    About Gregg Kreutz

    Gregg Kreutz has won numerous honors as a student and professional painter. His paintings have been represented in many juried shows. Gregg is represented by the Fanny Garver Gallery as many others, including the Grand Central Galleries, New York, O’Brien’s… More about Gregg Kreutz

    Product Details

    Category: Art

    Paperback | $25.99
    Published by Watson-Guptill
    May 24, 2016 | 160 Pages | 8-1/2 x 11 | ISBN 9780804185431

    Category: Art

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Watson-Guptill
    May 24, 2016 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780804185448
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    Praise

    “Gregg Kreutz encourages learning to see with clarity and insight,and that’s exactly what this book achieves. I’m an art observer,not an artist, but even I can follow—and admire—Kreutz’s logical,step-by-step approach to making paintings look better.”
    —PETER TRIPPI, editor-in-chief, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine

    “In Oil Painting Essentials, Gregg Kreutz expands on the teachingsand ideas that he brought forth first in Problem Solving for OilPainters. This new book is rich and colorful with Gregg’s paintings,showing examples of what to strive for and what to avoid whenlearning to paint. The writing is wonderfully clear, providing manyinsights for solving the essential problems art students confront.”
    —DAVID A LEFFEL, artist and teacher

    Table Of Contents

    INTRODUCTION 1

    CHAPTER 1 ENGAGING THE ESSENTIALS:CONCEPT AND PROCESS IN OIL PAINTING 11

    CHAPTER 2 PORTRAITS 47

    CHAPTER 3 FIGURES 67

    CHAPTER 4 STILL LIFES 83

    CHAPTER 5 LANDSCAPES 101
    -Plein Air Landscapes 107
    -Studio Landscapes 116

    CHAPTER 6 INTERIORS 127

    AFTERWORD: A FEW FINAL THOUGHTS . . . 145

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 149

    INDEX 150

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