The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted
by Kathleen Lochen Staiger · Kathleen Staiger
Kathleen Lochen Staiger's structured sequence of guided oil painting lessons, built from her decades of classroom teaching. Readers work through brush control, modeling three-dimensional form, color mixing, and still-life, landscape and portrait exercises, finishing able to plan and complete a representational oil painting.
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