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From the author of the classic Watson-Guptill best seller Problem Solving for Oil Painters comes an essential guide demonstrating the universal oil painting techniques that allow artists expand their horizons, break out of ruts, and master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.Many painters limit themselves to a particular genre out of habit or fear, but in Oil Painting Essentials, art instructor Gregg Kreutz reveals how connected oil painting techniques are no matter what subject an artist tackles. Arranged by essential artistic focal points, each chapter reveals the challenges and rewards that painters face when covering specific genres. Through step-by-step lessons and examples from the works of oil painting masters past and present, Kreutz shows how artists can strengthen their skillset for one type of subject matter by painting in another area they may not be as familiar with.
About the Author
In my latest book; Oil Painting Essentials, Mastering Portrait, Still Life, Landscape, Figure, and Interior, I try and reduce the complexities of oil painting to core issues that can be found in all genres. My hope is that by encouraging a multi-subject approach, the book will make the rewards of realistic painting accessable to all levels of painters.
I was born in Wisconsin, raised in Ohio, graduated from N.Y.U. and have lived in New York for the last forty years. I am a painter, writer, and instructor who teaches painting and drawing at The Art Student's League in New York City and at workshops around the country.
My earlier book; Problem Solving for Oil Painters came out in 1985 and has been going strong ever since.
I'm also a playwright with three plays published by Samuel French that are performed throughout the country and--occasionally--around the world (thanks New Zealand!) .
Oil Painting Essentials, my most recent writing endeavor, is the culmination of forty years of probing the issue of what it means to be an oil painter--why it's important, how it can be made more accessable, and what it can teach us about life.
