Oil Painting book and e-book
E-book: 14,90 dollars |
This oil painting book goes deep into the material side of oil painting. It's available as an e-book, and soon also in printing. It covers all relevant ready-made products and classical painting materials - with recipes, a list of recommended products, and short, clear information on how to use them. It's an extended version (with recipes!) of a big part of this website. If you sell your paintings, or want to develop your own layering systems: this is for you.
Ordering your oil painting e-book
This oil painting book is an e-book of 76 pages: lots of short, easy to survey text, with relevant pictures. It has a table of contents, inbound links, an index to find all the places where a specific material is discussed, and an appendix of recipes that can easily be printed (and taped to your studio wall). For 14,90 your paintings will be ensured a long life.
Table of contents
introduction
- Common misunderstandings about oil paint
- the oil painting system - a layering system
- How to decide on materials
Painting grounds
- canvases and canvas rolls
- Painting boards
- How to make painting boards
- Gluing canvas on a painting board
- Canvas stretching, assembling stretcher strips
- Stretching canvas to the wall
- Sizing before priming page
- Rabbit skin glue recipe
Primers
- Features, drying times
- Mending ready-made acrylic gesso, acrylic/caseine gesso recipe
- classical painting grounds: Half oil ground (recipe)
- absorbent glue-primer (recipe)
- Oil primers, caseine
Underpainting materials
- pure egg tempera (recipe)
- Shellac (recipe), Dammar (recipe)
- caseine (recipe)
- oily egg tempera (recipe)
- acrylic-caseine paint (2 recipes)
- the use of white in underpainting
- imprimature
- underpainting with oils, how to make oil paint dry
- alkyd resins
- classical oil-and-tempera speed painting procedure
layering rules
- fat over lean, recipe for painting medium
- Liquin and alkyds
- Thick over thin, fresh paint
Oil paint
- Kinds of oil
- pigments - toxic and non-toxic pigments
- Earth pigments, Lakes
- Fast and slow drying pigments
- Chemical and natural colors, transparancy
- Whites, fillers
- Stable and unstable pigments
- Ideal and limited palette
- Making oil paint
- how to get paint in a tube
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Varnishing and shine
- inbetween varnishing (alternatives to “oiling in a painting”)
- end varnishing
- turning fat paint matte again
Oil paint brushes
- brush materials (kinds of natural hair), brush shapes
- Cleaning issues
- List of products and materials
- Subject index
- Appendix of recipes
Free recipes
If you want only recipes: part of them (for primers and underpainting) are available as a free download, when you subscribe to this website.
Buying this E-book
Paying can be done with paypal. As soon as you make your payment (14,90) dollars, I receive a notification with your name and email adress, and you'll receive your oil painting ebook within 24 hours.
I hope this e-book will become an important source for you - if your oil painting materials matter to you, I'm convinced it will show its value. Should you however be unhappy or disappointed by it: if you notify me within two weeks, I'll give you a full refund.
Related pages:
- Oil painting basics
- Underpainting techniques
- underpainting examples
- Imprimature and underpainting colors
- Oil painting colors
- Oil painting supplies
- Brushes for oil paint
- Oil paints
- Painting boards
- Stretcher strips
- Canvases and canvas preparation
- Material basics in oil painting
- How to use brushes
- Color mixing guide
- Colors and pigments
- Making oil paint
- Making egg-tempera and caseine paint
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