Collins You Can Paint Oils

Written by professional artist-teachers, books in this series start with basics and assume no knowledge or experience of oil painting. Simple exercises and explanations show exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture one-by-one, in order to produce an oil painting to be proud of.

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Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, the "Collins You Can Paint" series should give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in oils. All the instruction is broken down into easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky and finally how to paint a simple foreground, so that in the end you can paint a complete landscape in oils.