The Painter in oil

CHAPTER XXV: KINDS OF PAINTING Why not recognize that conviction, intense personal attraction to asserted sort of thing is the l ...

CHAPTER XXVI: THE SKETCH The sketch is the germ of the picture. It contains the idea which may later become the finished work. I ...

This is the sketch from nature, always the record of an impression, the note of an idea hinted by one fact or condition seen mor ...

Keep Looking. - Always keep your eyes open and your mind receptive; do not be always looking for reasons. Accept the charm as it ...

CHAPTER XXVII: THE STUDY The qualities which make a good study are the reverse of those which make a good sketch. In the sketch ...

But exact also with your values. If your study is not sure of its values, it will weaken the results you should get from it late ...

CHAPTER XXVIII: STILL LIFE Copying may well be spoken of here as it is in a sense a kind of manipulation. It is a means of study ...

long as you care to paint from them, and need not be moved at all. This fact of “staying power “ in still life is one of importa ...

and women, does not affect the seriousness and usefulness of the problem; for the principles of composition and color do not hav ...

does not count for, our composition. The things we have here are enough, but they are not right as they are now. They injure rat ...

Interest. - But the use of this sort of painting is not only its practical use. You need not feel that it is all drudgery -which ...

something with which you can have a more just idea of the effect of each touch of color you put on. If there is much variety of ...

Color and Values. - Study the color at the same time you do the value. Put on no touch of paint as a value or a color alone. If ...

Portrait of himself, by Albrecht Druer ...

Portrait of Himself, by Diego Velazquez ...

Portrait of His Mother, by James Whistler ...

CHAPTER XXIX: FLOWERS Flower painting is the refinement of still life. You have the same control of combination, but you have no ...

Get the large values, and as little as possible the expression of individual flowers; then as the flowers fade and change, subst ...

CHAPTER XXX: PORTRAITS Don’t look upon portraits as something any one can do. A portrait is more than a likeness, and the painti ...

Qualities. - There are other great qualities also which you can get in a portrait. All the qualities of color and tone, of cours ...