Painting with Oil

Barron's Beginner Art Guides are substantial books that pack in lots of information at a value price. Covering the fundamentals of art, each guide provides a series of projects, presented in order of difficulty, and supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas for color experiments, and techniques for creating special effects.

This volume offers advice on selecting ranges of colors to match the subject of a painting. Learn to thin and mix pigments, to use turpentine and other solvents, to use palette knives for mixing paints and for applying color directly to the canvas, and much more.

The book's final page presents a capsule description of the Spanish Renaissance painter Francisco Pacheco and shows three of his paintings.

Hardbound. 64 pages. 8¼" × 11" (21 cm × 28 cm).