Materials and Techniques Reference Books
The Oil Painting Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist
Bill Creevy
Encyclopedic in design, this all-in-one reference covers new as well as traditional materials and techniques. In addition to a compendium of materials, the book also catalogs and illustrates the oil painter's many choices of supports and grounds. Includes demonstrations of a vast array of oil techniques. 350 color illustrations.
"Formulas for Painters"
Robert Massey
Here is a unique reference book which every serious painter will find indispensable. Formulas for Painters gathers for the first time in a single volume over 200 recipes for making sizes, grounds, mediums, glazes, varnishes, fixatives, and adhesives. The recipes, some dating as far back as the Renaissance, have been tested by artists through the ages and retested by the author under controlled laboratory conditions. There are forty-two recipes for paints alone, ranging from ancient encausetic and tempra to modern acrylic and silica resins, dozens of mediums for every purpose, and a score of grounds for canvas, panels, and fresco.
"How to Paint Like the Old Masters"
Joseph Sheppard
You may have stood in a museum marveling at a painting by one of the great masters--Rembrandt, Titian, Vermeer--and thought, "How did he do it?" Or perhaps you wished you could slip back in time and watch a master paint--seeing for yourself how he achieved those stunning effects. Of course that isn't possible, but in this unique book, Joseph Sheppard, a leading contemporary painter, shows you in detailed, full-color demonstrations the variety of oil painting techniques perfected by the old masters in the 16th and 17th centuries--the golden age of oil painting.
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