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The Beginner’s Guide to Oil Painting: Simple Still Life Projects to Help You Master the Basics

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The Easy Way to Get Started with Oil Painting Craig Stephens has a simple motto for painting: With a brush, some paints and a willingness to learn, anyone can do it. With that mindset, Craig takes his most essential lessons, boils them down to their basics and teaches you everything you need to know to start oil painting, without any fuss or highbrow. Thanks to his experience teaching painting to high school students for over two decades, Craig is an expert at helping those with no experience pick up a brush and make beautiful art they are proud of. With his direction, you’ll create dynamic, vivid paintings and learn to capture your world in ways you never thought possible. Each project in this book is designed to highlight the important elements of using oil paints, helping you to practice new skills and get comfortable with the medium. And thanks to Craig’s helpful step-by-step directions that pair a picture with each stroke, you’ll get great results. Hone your color-mixing eye as you blend the vibrant greens and subtle yellows in the Freshly Cut Avocado piece. Practice painting unique textures, like the small craters in the Simplified Strawberry or the glossy skin on the Smooth and Shiny Plum. Learn all the ways to capture natural light, like transparency in a glass of Refreshing Lemon Water or dazzling reflections on a Chrome Coffee Creamer. Oil painting is a timeless art form, and with Craig as your teacher, you’ll create 22 beautiful pieces for your walls and learn all the foundational skills you need to enjoy this hobby for years to come. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Page Street Publishing (April 26, 2022)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1645674940


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 48


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.5 x 8.95 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #99,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #8 in Oil Painting #77 in Arts & Photography Study & Teaching #254 in Art History by Theme


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I got hours of enjoyment out of this book and will more than likely go through it again. Great lessons on how important value is in achieving the correct color temperature. On a side note, I liked the book so much I was willing to write a second review even though Amazon inexplicably rejected my first one. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2023 by pete pete
    • Great value study
Getting the value wrong can really impact your painting and it's harder than it looks. This book is helping me to get a better handle on improving my own painting by walking me through the process of creating color strings and working from dark to light. Very useful book.
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023 by DHolmes
    • Good Beginner's Guide to Oil Painting
I just started oil painting a couple of months ago, I haven't ever painted anything, so I'm on the hunt for good basic and understandable direction in oil painting. I haven't done all the exercises in this book, although I've done a few of them, but I do think it's very helpful. It gives you basic exercises to do with good instruction. It tells you what paints you need to get started and step by step directions to finish the painting. I would recommend this book, I plan to continue the exercises and hope that this helps me to paint better, because it's not easy. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2022 by Rhonda
    • Knowledge : learning
Best for a true beginner .
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2023 by Cat Raff
    • One of the best books out there!
Whether you’re a beginner looking to finally learn to paint in oils, or a more experienced painter wanting to brush up on alla prima painting skills, this is the book for you. Clear, concise exercises and examples show you it how it’s done. It starts with an overview of supplies and setting up the workspace using simple materials, and you only need to buy a few colors and a couple of brushes. Craig shows you how to mix colors and render simple forms, then moves on to more complex subjects. He emphasizes the importance of practice to get better at painting, just like anything else, the more you paint, the better you get at painting. I’m a professional artist and have been painting for 40 years, if I was teaching again I would have this as my textbook. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022 by anonymouswasawoman
    • Excellent book for beginners!!
I am so impressed with this book! Compared to all the other oil painting books I own- this one is for amazing for beginners and intermediate painters alike! Other art books contain so much extra information that it’s hard for a beginner to know where to start. (I’m speaking from personal experience!) But, this book is different. It’s like having your own personal teacher walk you through step by step. The book progresses in such a well-thought out manner, introducing ideas and concepts in very digestible steps. The pictures and descriptions are so very helpful. And best of all, there are numerous exercises to work through that are easy enough that you’ll actually want to do them! If you are a beginner painter, save yourself so much frustration and get this book first!!! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2022 by Igga's Girl
    • Excellent!
I have quite a few "Beginners" books for oil painters as I started painting late in life and am largely self tought. This book does not presuppose any preknowledge, yet within the first few pages I picked up some info I have not found in any other book. The excercises are excellent, well chosen and well explained. I've taken the book to art class and hope the author gets some well-deserved sales from it. Good job Graig Stevens! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2022 by Brenda De Wet
    • Best Beginner’s Book I have Ever Found
I have read a lot of books that are supposed to be for the beginning oil painter, and they always leave me hanging. This book is clear and concise. The author takes one through about 21 small 5” x 7” paintings designed to be completed in the Alla Prima style, with a painting a day. My schedule doesn’t allow a painting a day but I am still happy with my success. The painting exercises start with a few value studies of geometric shapes before moving into color studies of things like fruit, a silver pot, a sneaker etc. This book doesn’t confuse the beginning oil painter with a lot of principles, you just get to paint. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022 by Amazon Customer

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