The Painter's Problem Book: 20 Problem Subjects and How to Paint Them

by Joseph Dawley and Gloria Dawley

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823035158
• ISBN13: 9780823035151
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book

I bought this thinking it might offer a few tips I could use, but not expecting too much. Wow, was I surprised at what I got. This book is a must have for any beginning or intermediate artist using oils and, depending on their typical subject matter, for some advanced artists too. There are 20 step-by-step demonstrations plus 24 finished paintings show in B & W and 10 in full color - most of these are full page and all are beautiful. There's a total of 65 B & W images and 50 full color ones in the book. Not to worry, the b & w plates are almost exclusively of the initial block-ins and tonings of the canvas in the demonstrations. Now to the best part! The demonstration subjects covered are 1) Glass 2) Fur 3) Silver 4) Shiny Fabrics 5) Candlelight 6) Rough-Textured Fabrics 7) Filmy and Lacy Fabrics 8) Wood 9) Fruits 10) Bread 11) Smooth Vegetables 12) Leafy Vegetables 13) Rust 14) Old Books and Paper 15) Worn Leather 16) Pottery 17) Shiny Leather 18) Beverage in a Glass 19) China 20) Jewelry. Each demonstration has two 2/3 page B & W images showing block in and two 2/3 page color images showing color application. Each image is accompanied by several paragraphs discussing colors and tones applied and why. If this book showed and discussed a few more intermediate steps of the demonstrations I would never need another. As it is, the large color photos and color application notes gave me just what I needed to move beyond my stumbling points and grasp painting fabrics and textures accurately.