Get The Best Oil Painting Books Online – Natural Pigments

1. Get The Best Oil Painting Books If you want learn about oil painting techniques then Get the best oil painting books online from Natural Pigments. We offer all types of artist painting books or oil painting lessons including A Treatise on Painting, paining materials & more.

2. The Classic Portrait DVD This four hour video describes an approach to portrait painting based on a carefully organized plan involving clear steps from monochromatic underpainting to colored glazes. The first day is devoted to grisaille which establishes form and value and the second day focuses on color which adds life and vitality to the portrait. 

3. Grinding Your Own Oil Paint In this video, we take you through the various steps of making your own oil paint from mixing the pigment with linseed oil, to grinding, to putting your paint into tubes. DVD. Run time: 48 minutes. There was a time before the invention of paint tubes, when artists had to grind their own oil paint. The advantage was that artists could make their paints to suit their personal preferences and working methods.

4. Living Craft Living Craft is the result of over twenty years of teaching, and over twelve years of active research into the foundations of older practice by working painter Tad Spurgeon. It is about developing a personal craft through the creative use of traditional materials, and is based on the recent findings of technical art history, rather than the systems of the twentieth century textbooks.

5. A Treatise on Painting Compiled many years after his death from numerous original manuscripts, A Treatise on Painting is the principal repository of Leonardo da Vinci’s practical thoughts on the technique of drawing and painting. It begins with precise instructions on drawing the human body and then moves on to techniques of rendering motion.

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