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This book provides all the essential knowledge and encouragement for future or already existing artists. I can recommend this book to anybody who wants to learn how to paint with oil colors beautiful landscapes.A big thank you to the author for sharing his knowledge with us.
For that reason, it is probably most useful for the intermediate to advanced painter. The bottom line: this book provided a liberating experience; encouraging me to relax and just paint. The best thing about this book is the encouragement to paint freely, in your own natural style. Beginners will learn from this book, but unless you have mastered some basic drawing and composition techniques, the style of painting exhibited might be difficult to achieve.
If you know what your doing, this book offers some great insight into translating what you see. Looks like I am going to be odd man out in my review of this book as instructional. If your a beginner looking for tips, I would recommend looking elsewhere.
The interior view showed me nothing of the artist's talent, just a lot of text. Again, maybe I didn't view correctly. Hi, my only comment is that I would have liked to view some of the artist's painting/technique's in the promotional interior view Amazon provides. Maybe I didn't hit the right view button, but I didn't want to buy what I could not see.
He also has many wonderful tips about pochade boxes and travelling with your painting gear. How does he handle trees. I keep this open in my studio and refer to it often. Even experienced painters will find themselves using this book in more than a cursory way. I love this book. Kevin McPhearson is not only an inspiring painter, but a skilled teacher as well. How about those clouds.
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