Kathleen Lochen Staiger's Oil Painting Course: Unlock Your Creative Potential

RC: Es un libro básico pero que contiene mucha información práctica. La calidad de los ejemplos no es la mejor pero cumple la función de ilustrar las técnicas que intenta explicar.

Mexico on Dec 27, 2023

Jill rotrekl: Good for beginers and those that want to brush up on thier oil psinting skills. It is not intimidating.

United States on Oct 20, 2023

MuñecaMuñeca: Tel que promit c’est un bijou, il guide pas à pas les débutants avec des exercices claires pour bien maîtriser plusieurs techniques. J’adore je recommande fortement

Canada on Aug 05, 2023

wallst: Tocca tutti gli argomenti in maniera precisa e nel dettaglio, ma soprattutto con moltissimi esercizi pratici. Il primo libro di pittura ad olio che un principiante dovrebbe acquistare.

Italy on May 06, 2023

Migry: Livre indispensable et parfait

France on Feb 11, 2020

VeroVero: At least a well made book not self oriented which explains you all in details without tralala or chichi. The tittle for once does not mislead the readers, you will definitively find an answer to your questions as students or painting amateurs. Full of tips, tricks, and exceptions it is also a book that art critic students should get to understand how the artist created distance, where the focus point(s) is/are in the painting, etc. If u had to buy a book it would be this one, point. K. Lochen Staiger takes us by the hand and accompanies us along a beautiful percourse where the shop list equipment is supplied, light, shadows or color mixes are developed and illustrated, the why and the how are clearly defined, explained and demonstrated through various exercizes to improve any kind of readers' painting skills. Bravo maestra for having taken the time to do such a bible in order to share it with us. I am so grateful, thank you.

United States on Nov 27, 2019

dheeraj: must have for every aspiring artist and even experienced professionals

India on Dec 12, 2017

CJP: I got this book from the library. I always knew I could draw, and I always wanted to oil paint. I have a lot of books on oil painting, but I still struggle. Oil paints are tricky, sort of like playing the violin: you have to learn to control them before you start creating with them.

Now, it IS for beginners, but it also says for "experienced" because she shows you tricks that maybe you didn't cover in other classes.

She incorporates drawing lessons with the painting lessons. If you can't draw and shade a sphere, how are you going to understand a bush? She doesn't just have list of brushes, but she has exercises on how to blend paint with them. Each exercise in the book builds on the next.

It is true that you are not going to paint a masterpiece with this book, but I do think you will say, "Oh, that's the problem", and then you can move forward with your own talent.

She has one whole page on Taming Thalo Green, which no one else has in their books. She has a shading lesson in primary colors, and in secondary colors. She tells you how to dull a color without changing the value (mix it's exact complimentary in the same value, then add it). She explains...

United States on Nov 24, 2007

Brian Asquith: Staiger has compiled a wealth of information of use to the beginner in oil painting. Pretty much all the basic considerations of what constitutes a successful painting are covered.

She opens with a good overview of the materials required: paints, brushes, supports, easels and a useful piece on mediums and cleaners. Staiger appears to acknowledge that of her audience some are merely curious as to what oil painting entails through to the serious beginner looking for a good foundation of knowledge. Hence economy is apparent with a minimal range of brushes being recommended along with using good student grade paints (Winsor & Newton - Grumbacher), along with old tuna-fish cans for holding the medium. This is followed by:

i) A fairly comprehensive and easy to understand section on rendering 3D form on a 2D canvas.

ii) 20 pages on colour and colour mixing (a further 4 pages on mixing greens appears later in the landscape section).

iii) The previous chapters are brought to a conclusion with an exercise in painting a cylinder and a sphere.

iv) Painting the Still Life is next (30 pages of info), covering issues such as composition, sketching,...

United States on Dec 13, 2006