Publisher Description

You Can Paint With Oils!An easy and fun introduction to landscape painting.Discover Oil Painting is a complete course on painting landscapes in oils. This fun and easy guide is loaded with time-honored methods, techniques and tutorials along with ways to tweak those ideas to suit your own painting personality.No matter what your experience (or lack of experience!) you will learn how to paint beautiful works of art in no time..21 step-by-step painting demonstrations tackle skies, foliage, wildflowers, water, rocks and more.Easy-to-understand lessons demystify composition, color, value, paint application techniques, and other key concepts.Expert tips and advice honed over nearly 35 years of professional teaching and paintingWith master teacher Julie Gilbert Pollard, you will walk through the painting process in manageable steps, from laying out a palette and overcoming the initial intimidation of a blank canvas, to designing strong compositions and achieving brilliant, yet believable color. Along this path to successful landscapes, you will find the stepping stones to losing yourself in the journey and discovering the pure pleasure in painting with oils and using your own creativity.

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10 easy-to-follow step-by-step demonstrations to help the reader complete finished landscapes, with instructions ranging from the very basic to more specific oil painting techniques.

Author Biography

Phoenix artist Julie Gilbert Pollard paints in oils and watercolors in a fluid, painterly manner. Her painting style, while representational, is colored with her own personal concept of reality and a unique approach to color and light. She has taught classes since 1985, and currently teaches at the Scottsdale Artists' School, Shemer Art Center and Cynthia's Art Asylum in the greater Phoenix area, as well as the Highland Valley Studios in California, Dillman's Creative Arts Foundation in Wisconsin and La Romita School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Julie is a signature member of the San Diego Watercolor Society. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections and she is represented in Arizona by Esprit Decor Gallery in Phoenix and Windrush Gallery in Sedona. Julie is the author of two North Light Books, Brilliant Color (2009) and Watercolor Unleashed! (2013), as well as two North Light DVDs in acrylic and watercolor. She has also been featured in The Artist's Magazine (May 2010) and 100 Ways to Paint Landscapes (International Artist, 2004). Visit her website at JulieGilbertPollard.com.

Long Description

Accomplished art instructor Julie Gilbert Pollard offers expert advice on oil painting through the lens of the common landscape. *Whether you are totally new to painting or interested in exploring oil for the first time, the instruction begins with the basics, then moves toward successful painting techniques.*Learn how to break down and design a composition and explore multiple easy-to-follow methods to getting an oil painting started.*Dozens of specific skills and techniques combine into ten complete step-by-step landscape demonstrations to master subjects such as water, skies, trees, rocks and mountains.

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