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Brooklyn artist in tussle with Smithsonian

New York Daily News - Jan 24, 2012
Bowland's oil painting, entitled "Kenyetta and Brianna," was part of a Smithsonian exhibition from March 2009 to August 2010 and was awarded a "People's Choice Award." In the final weeks of the show, the Smithsonian sent two emails to Bowland about ...

En Plein Air Painting with Joni Finnegan

Examiner.com - Jan 25, 2012
That's why she is offering a Plein Air Oil Painting Workshop for two days, March 30-31! This is a fantastic opportunity to learn a new form of art that is close to Joni's heart. Plein Air Oil Painting maybe a new term for some.

“The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine's ...

PR.com (press release) - Jan 25, 2012
Wichita, KS, January 25, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine's Day 2012. Topping the chart for the second year in a row is Gustav ...

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Oil Painting books

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

by: John Berger
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings .
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Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist

by: James Gurney
An award-winning fantasy artist and the creator of Dinotopia, James Gurney instructs and inspires in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. Renowned for his uncanny ability to incorporate amazing detail and imagination into stunningly realistic fantasy settings, James Gurney teaches budding artists and fans of fantasy art step-by-step the techniques that won him worldwide critical acclaim. This groundbreaking work examines the practical methods for creating believable pictures of imaginary subjects, such as dinosaurs, ancient Romans, alien creatures, and distant worlds.
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Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

by: John F. Carlson, Art Instruction
The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, aerial and linear perspective, painting of trees, emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, plus information on canvas, palette, brushes, more. 34 black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Carlson. 58 explanatory diagrams.
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Color Mixing Recipes

by: William F Powell

'The popular Color Mixing Recipe Cards by William F. Powell has served as a handy reference of essential color combinations for almost 10 years. And now this collection of recipes is available in an updated, convenient format developed with your needs in mind! Conveniently packaged in a concealed wire-o-bound book that lies flat when opened, the recipe cards will always stay in order with no risk of getting lost. The book also includes a Color Mixing Grid—the perfect guide for accurately measuring paints.
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How to Oil Paint, FREE Oil Painting lesson 1 With Michael Thompson

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Oil & Acrylic Painting Tips : Oil Painting for Beginners

When oil painting as a beginner, gather a painting ground, which can be a canvas, a board or other painting surface, gesso, paint pigments, a palette, linseed oil, paint thinner and various brushes. Gather all of the necessary supplies to begin painting with information from an experienced artist in this free video on painting. Expert: Koorosh Angali Contact: www.angali.com Bio: Dr. Koorosh Angali is an accomplished scholar, poet, musician, actor and performance artist. Filmmaker: Todd Green

 

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Oil Painting Lesson - Wilson Bickford - Clouds

Here is a lesson in oil painting techniques for clouds. Please toggle to full screen for maximum detail. For more information, visit: www.wilsonbickford.com produced by obsidiancv - http

 

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Donato Giancola - The Mechanic - Oil Painting

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Portrait painting in oil. Realistic oil portrait of man

Portrait painting in oil on a canvas for nice men. www.art-portrets.ru Realistic painting portrait in oil from photo drawn by artist Igor Kazarin on a canvas in the size of 40 sm on 50 see Time of execution of this portrait has borrowed 3 weeks. In this video stage-by-stage process of drawing of a portrait by oil, with high-speed drawing playback is shown. Realistic oil painting portrait has deserved great glory starting with depth of centuries. Presently oil painting portrait in style of realism loses the positions concerning other methods of drawing portraits, but nevertheless admirers of artist drawing portrait in oil on canvas in realistic style to become more and increasing every year and it is no surprising in fact for understanding such portraits are accessible to much.