Oil Painting book and e-book

E-book: 14,90 dollars
76 pages
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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.

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

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.

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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.