Oil painting book
Leslie E Samchuk
book for oil painting. I want to get one for my grandfather for
Christmas and I specifically want one that will get him away from the
type of formula painting he gets out of the William Alexander books he's
bought himself. He's very good, but he needs to be pushed away from
copying Alexander paintings in order to really create some good work
(I've seen stuff he did when he was young and it's great). He is mostly
interested in landscapes and still-lifes and I would like to find
something that would encourage him to look at things in a different
way...I was especially thinking of impressionist/expressionist type
work...where mimesis is not the thing, but creating a feeling with colour
and light is. I would also like the book to be nice (nice pictures, hard
cover etc....not too expensive though). If you have a suggestion, just
post to this newsgroup or E-mail me. Thanks.
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Les
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Charles Eicher
(Leslie E Samchuk) wrote:
> Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could suggest a good instructional
> book for oil painting.
Try "Oil Painting for the Beginner" by Frederic Taubes, Watson-Guptil
publishers. The version I have is from 1944 but I see it referred to
(favorably) in more modern books, I'm sure its still in print. I've been
painting for years, but I learned a thing or 2 from this book.
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Vince Grienti
> In article <3cgphb$k...@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>, lsam...@uoguelph.ca
> (Leslie E Samchuk) wrote:
>
>> book for oil painting.
>
> publishers. The version I have is from 1944 but I see it referred to
> (favorably) in more modern books, I'm sure its still in print. I've been
> painting for years, but I learned a thing or 2 from this book.
>
One sure fire way to get him out of the Alexander Art motifs is to get him
a subscription to a magazine called;
ART IMPRESSIONS - A REALISTIC APPROACH TO ART IN CANADA
This magazine is available at any magazine shop, art store, etc.... I
usually pick mine up at Smithbooks. It is one of the very few magazines
that sets the style of excellence of what a Canadian art magazine should
look like.
Get him the oil painting book, and the magazine subscription, one will
complement the other.
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Andy Pearlman
>Hi, I was just wondering if anyone could suggest a good instructional
>book for oil painting. I want to get one for my grandfather for
>Christmas and I specifically want one that will get him away from the
>type of formula painting he gets out of the William Alexander books he's
>bought himself. He's very good, but he needs to be pushed away from
A really good book is Painting What You Want to See by Charles Reid. It goes
through both watercolor and oils, but I got a lot from it. One of the best
aspects, is that he goes through his own works and points out what he thinks
works and what doesn't. The ISBN # is 0-8230-3879-3, publisher is
Watson-Guptill. Best impulse purchase I ever made(visiting a friend at Notre
Dame in college, wandering through their bookstore, prof had assigned it to
the beginning oil class)
Andy Pearlman
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