The Oil Painting Book

This indispensable encyclopedia compares leading brands of oil paints, including such recent innovations as oil sticks, alkyds and water-miscible oils. The book also describes mediums, solvents and varnishes, brushes, palettes and other tools. Both traditional and unconventional techniques are demonstrated, including alla prima, wet-in-wet, drybrush, knife painting, impasto, glazing and scumbling.