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Oil Painting for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting
by Mary Willenbrink
Willenbrink, Mark & Mary Willenbrink. Oil Painting for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting. North Light: F+W. 2010. 128p. illus. index. ISBN 9781600617843. pap. $24.99 with DVD. ART INSTRUCTION
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This husband-and-wife team combines Mark's work as a fine artist, illustrator, and art instructor with Mary's expertise as a writer and literature teacher. Having published Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner and Drawing for the Absolute Beginner, they have hit another home run. Unlike less successful art books for beginners, this one starts simply and takes the rank amateur to a satisfying level of accomplishment. Projects include monochromatic rocks, a sunset over a beach, mountains with primary colors, and a still life of pears. The accompanying DVD offers useful demonstrations of two complete paintings. This has an edge over Linda Birch's briefer You Can Paint Oils.
Reviewed by Daniel Lombardo , Nov 15, 2010
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