Review: Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering portraits, figures, still lifes, and interiors by Gregg Kreutz
Review: Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering portraits, figures, still lifes, and interiors Gregg Kreutz Watson-Guptill Publications 2016 Yes, I go for any bit of help I can find to improve my skills. Well, improve my attempts at oil painting anyway. This is not a beginner book, but one for someone who has worked with the medium a bit and has wondered what is it that just makes someone else’s work work and their own not work. His first eye opener for me was this. “…the skill of oil painting is not time dependent. It’s insight dependent.” (2) He had just debunked the paint one a day for a long time and you will arrive theory. He is not saying that isn’t important just that it takes more. That is the launch point for this book. Kreutz walks the reader through some basic concept and process essentials with examples (Loved the how not to paint a shadow!) After that he offers lots of good remi...