Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make It Right (Practical Art Books) - Softcover

Kreutz, G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823040976 ISBN 13: 9780823040971

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1997

Synopsis

Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognising What's Gone Wrong and How to Make It Right (Practical Art Books)

 

Finally - a book to help you solve all your painting problems!

Inside you'll learn how to study a painting and correct problematic areas. Study topics include:

Ideas
- Is there a good abstract idea underlying the picture?
- What details could be eliminated to strengthen the composition?
- Does the painting have a focus?
- Are the unessential parts subordinated?
- Does the painting "read"?
- Could you finish any part of the painting?

Shapes
- Are the dominant shapes as strong and simple as possible?
- Are the shapes too similar?

Value
- Could the value range be increased?
- Could the number of values be reduced?

Light
- Is the subject effectively lit?
- Is the light area big enough?
- Would the light look stronger with a suggestion of burnout?
- Do the lights have a continuous flow?
- Is the light graduated?

Shadows
- Do the shadow shapes describe the form?
- Are the shadows warm enough?

Depth
- Would the addition of foreground material deepen the space?
- Does the background recede far enough?
- Are the halftones properly related to the background?

Solidity
- Is the underlying form being communicated?
- Is the symmetry in perspective?

Colour
- Is there a colour strategy?
- Could a purer colour be used?
- Do the whites have enough colour in them?
- Are the colours over bended on the canvas?
- would the colour look brighter if it were saturated into its adjacent area?

Paint
- Is your palette efficiently organized?
- Is the painting surface too absorbent?
- Are you using the palette knife as much as you could?
- Are you painting lines when you should be painting masses?
- Are the edges dynamic enough?
- Is there enough variation in the texture of the paint?

 

MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BUDDING AND UP AND COMING ARTISTS!

About this title

About the Author

Gregg Kreutz has won numerous honors as a student and professional painter. His paintings have been represented in many juried shows. Gregg is represented by the Fanny Garver Gallery as many others, including the Grand Central Galleries, New York, O'Brien's Art Emporium, and the Dirk Walker Gallery in Brimingham, Alabama. He teaches painting at Scottsdale (Arizona) Artists School, the Fechin Institute (New Mexico), and at the Art Students League in New York City where he lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823040976
• ISBN 13: 9780823040971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144