60 Minutes to Better Painting: Improve Your Skills in Oil and Acrylic - Hardcover

Concentrating on quick studies allows painters to get to the essence of painting. In this book, Craig Nelson lists and explains the nine advantages to doing quick studies: editing, brush confidence, painting new subjects, composition exploration, colour exploration, exploring various lighting effects, trial before a larger painting, basic practice, and recreation. The nine purposes for quick studies are the organising structure for this book, with explanations, examples and step-by-steps provided for each purpose. Nelson begins by introducing the idea behind the quick studies, the materials needed, and the step-by-step process for the 25, 40 and one-hour paintings. After this, the nine purposes are practiced with step-by-step demos. Oil painters, acrylic painters and painters in any opaque medium who want to build their confidence and paint faster and better will want to have this book.

Craig Nelson has been painting for more than thirty years in both oils and acrylics. He has exhibited and done commissions all over the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. He has won over 200 awards of excellence and is a member of Oil Painters of America. Craig lives in northern California.