The Artist’s Garden in Oils: Eighteen Step by Step Guides by Rachel Shirley
An ideal book for the artist looking for inspiration on what to paint, my oil painting artbook shows how the garden offers an array of subject matter that might at first seem mundane. Art demonstrations exploring essential oil painting techniques including alla prima, scumbling and glazing are explored along the way. Now in large edition. What to Paint in the Garden There are 18 step by step oil painting demonstrations within this oil painting guidebook, each featuring between 7 and 9 images in progress with in-depth instructions on how each painting had been completed. At the back of this book are two further demonstrations on how to prepare the art surface for oil painting, making a total of 20 demonstrations. Sourced from my art instruction book, Oil paintings from your Garden published by GMC Publications 2002 (and which some images appear in my other Oil Painting Medic books), subject matter include sunflowers, garden tools, children, an arbor, sun-dappled lawns, swin...