Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors - Softcover

"Gregg Kreutz encourages learning to see with clarity and insight, and that's exactly what this book achieves. I'm an art observer, not an artist, but even I can follow--and admire--Kreutz's logical, step-by-step approach to making paintings look better." --PETER TRIPPI, editor-in-chief, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine "In Oil Painting Essentials, Gregg Kreutz expands on the teachingsand ideas that he brought forth first in Problem Solving for OilPainters. This new book is rich and colorful with Gregg's paintings, showing examples of what to strive for and what to avoid whenlearning to paint. The writing is wonderfully clear, providing manyinsights for solving the essential problems art students confront." --DAVID A LEFFEL, artist and teacher

An essential guide demonstrating the universal oil painting techniques that allow artists to expand their horizons, break out of ruts, and master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors. Many painters limit themselves to a particular genre out of habit or fear, but art instructor Gregg Kreutz reveals how connected oil painting techniques are no matter what subject an artist tackles. Arranged by essential artistic focal points, each chapter reveals the challenges and rewards that painters face when covering specific genres. Through step-by-step lessons and examples from the works of oil painting masters past and present, Kreutz shows how artists can strengthen their skillset for one type of subject matter by painting in another area they may not be as familiar with. This comprehensive breakdown of oil painting provides all of the tools and encouragement painters need to successfully take on any type of oil painting.