Radiant Oils: Glazing Techniques for Paintings that Glow
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…this book is worth the investment. If you can nail this technique your paintings are guaranteed to have depth, light and substance. --Artists & Illustrators
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Oil artists who want to explore glazing with transparent layers of oil paint, or watercolour artists who want to try their hand at oil painting, will find this book helpful. Readers will learn how to attain realism by applying many glazes of transparent colours to build realistic values and create luminescent paintings that glow with colour and give the appearance of looking through stained glass. More than 10 mini demonstrations and 3 extended painting demos that reinforce the mini lessons are woven throughout the chapters. These demos illustrate key concepts, from creating the background, to preserving edges, to establishing form and finally the finished painting.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book wanting to learn more about classical glazing techniques, as I have always painted alla prima. Unlike the other book on painting flowers using glazing techniques, this one is genuinely helpful in understanding what the author does. Regarding another review that the paintings themselves are bad, displaying no understanding of edges and value, I suggest you look yourself, since I would disagree (the weakness is edges, I agree, but even there she does show awareness in at least some of the paintings). The main issue I have, as was pointed out by an american reviewer, is that this book does not give you an understanding of classical glazing techniques at all, but actually demonstrates using oils as if they are watercolours. She does not do a grisaille, she paints from light to dark like watercolour (glazes always darken, but normally you would separate value from hue/chroma by using a grisaille), and doesn't use white paint at all, but leaves blank canvas for white areas ('saving the white of the canvas' - sound familiar?). I know of no book showing classical technique applied to florals, as painters such as Rachel Ruysch would have done. I would have liked more on the issue that must face everyone starting with a glazing technique, viz: how do you decide which combination of colours to use, and in which order? But her follow-along exercises are do-able and give practical insight into her methods.
I don't want to give the impression that Arleta is under the delusion that she is painting in a classical oil painting manner, or wants you to think so. She is quite explicit about loving the transparent colours of watercolours, but was in search of greater depth and vibrancy, and found that by applying watercolour techniques to oil. My warning is in case, like me, you are looking to understand classical techniques.
So, if you want to learn about classical glazing techniques, or standard oil painting techniques, look elsewhere. But just because a technique originated in a different medium doesn't in itself make it invalid. I suggest you judge the results for yourself.
I don't want to give the impression that Arleta is under the delusion that she is painting in a classical oil painting manner, or wants you to think so. She is quite explicit about loving the transparent colours of watercolours, but was in search of greater depth and vibrancy, and found that by applying watercolour techniques to oil. My warning is in case, like me, you are looking to understand classical techniques.
So, if you want to learn about classical glazing techniques, or standard oil painting techniques, look elsewhere. But just because a technique originated in a different medium doesn't in itself make it invalid. I suggest you judge the results for yourself.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Arleta has the credentials to paint and paint she does. In this book she looks at glazing, and this is the best book I have seen on this subject. It is filled with images of Arleta's fabulous work. The book also includes invaluable information on transparency, transferring your drawing and stretching your canvas. I love the flowers in oils, the glass is amazing and there are a variety of subjects to paint. Detailed instructions are given for the cover painting. Technically sound and instructive.
6 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i saw this book recently in my local bookstore. here i sat browsed it for a while. first of all the author has very little working knowledge of painting herself, i am confused as to how she expects to teach anything of value to others. her own paintings which are used through out the book demonstrate just how little she knows about painting. they lack all of the major elements of a good painting. which are drawing, vales, edges, technique and color (in that order) she is however a good example of some one who spends a great deal of time "dabbling" in a subject thinking it makes an achievement without first educating herself in the fundamentals which is evident from the authors note... the lesson here is that to be learned good art doesn't need references, it is obvious when something is good.. one of the worse books I've ever had the displeasure of picking up. do not buy it.
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