"In any exhibition of novice paintings . . . it's not in any respect strange to discover many fascinating water-colour drawings, yet . . . it's very infrequently that the paintings within the oil medium is something yet uninteresting, lifeless, and missing in all energy and charm." — Harold Speed
Such provocative assertions are attribute of this stimulating and informative advisor, written in a hugely own and exact type by way of a famous painter and instructor. Brimming with pertinent insights into the technical features and portray in oils, it's also designed to assist scholars ideal powers of statement and expression.
Harold pace has distilled years of portray and pedagogical event into a professional educational application protecting portray method, portray from lifestyles, fabrics (paints, varnishes, oils and mediums, grounds, etc.), a painter's education, and extra. specially instructive is his wide and perceptive dialogue of shape, tone, and colour, and a desirable sequence of special "Notes" reading the portray forms of Velasquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Franz Hals, and Rembrandt.
Nearly 70 pictures and drawings illustrate the textual content, between them prehistoric cave work, diagrams of tonal values, phases of portrait portray, and reproductions of masterpieces through Giotto, Vermeer, Ingres, Rembrandt, Titian, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hals, Giorgione, Poussin, Corot, Veronese, and different luminaries. as well as those pictorial pleasures, the writer additional leavens the teachings with thought-provoking opinion.
Clear, cogent, and down-to-earth, this familiar instruction manual will specially curiosity severe amateurs learning the technical elements of oil portray, yet its wealthy perception into the brain and techniques of the artist will enlighten and intrigue any artwork lover.
