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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Bold Expressive Painting: Painting Techniques for Still Lifes, Florals and Landscapes in Mixed Media

Loosen up and nurture your colorful spontaneous expression!

Bold Expressive Painting offers the fresh approach you’re been looking for. Through step-by-step projects, learn to paint traditional subjects–still lifes, florals and landscapes–in a loose, modern and sometimes whimsical way. Working in acrylic or oil, you will learn the expressive approach to creating personal work that reflect your emotions and passions using techniques such as gesture painting, negative shape painting, and intuitive painting.

In addition to 10 stepped-out projects you’ll also learn:

Methods of handling vibrant color, creating a personal palette and trying out new composition formats

Ways to develop innovative compositions by incorporating personal symbols and imagery

How to breath exciting new life into previous work

Techniques for working with collage, stencils, stamps and monoprinting

Release realism and embrace a colorful and new personal, expressionist style!

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

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

An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.

Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor Gregg Kreutz shows how a multi-genre approach can dramatically improve your painting skills. Arranged by category, each chapter covers both the essentials specific to that subject matter and those that apply to all genres.

Through step-by-step lessons and examples from his own oil paintings, Kreutz shows how you can strengthen your skillset for one genre by painting in another. This comprehensive exploration of the conceptual and practical issues behind oil painting provides all of the tools and encouragement you need to successfully take on any type of oil painting.