Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present

Traditional Oil Painting is a unique and irreplaceable sourcebook for those who want to master the techniques and concepts of advanced oil painting. With step-by-step demonstrations, Virgil Elliott reveals the methods used by Masters from the Flemish school to today to create highly realistic, deeply meaningful art. These lessons are grouped by topic into chapters on: The Importance of Drawing Principles of Visual Reality Color, Techniques of Painting in Oils Oil Painting Materials Portrait, Landscape, and Still-Life Painting, and more. Throughout, Elliott guides the ongoing education and development of your own artist's voice and aesthetic sensibility. Students of art will appreciate highly detailed explanations of the Masters' varied methods, made possible by recent scientific advances and by Elliott's own expertise in oil painting materials and technique.