Description
Stimulating, informative guide by noted teacher covers painting technique, painting from life, materials — paints, varnishes, oils and mediums, grounds, etc. — a painter’s training, more.
Speed also provides expert analysis of works by Velasquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hals, Rembrandt, and others.
Softcover, 368 pages, 64 photos, 5 line drawings, 0.7 x 5.3 x 8.3 inches.
Reprint of The Science and Practice of Oil Painting, Chapman and Hall Ltd., London, 1924.
Table of Contents for Oil Painting Techniques and Materials
Preface
I Introduction
II Modern Art
III Technique of Painting
IV The Painter’s Training
V Tone Values
VI Elementary Tone Exercises
VII Colour
VIII "Colour, Pratical"
IX Painting from the Life
A Note on Velasquez
A Note on Reynolds
A Note on Gainsborough
A Note on Franz Hals
A Note on Rembrandt
X Tone and Colour Design
A Note on Taste
XI Materials
XII Picture Painting
Index
