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Tables of Contents for Oil Painting
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Materials
5
17
Mixing color
17
8
Testing colors
More colors on the palette Obtaining colors, Harmonic ranges
Landscape with basic colors.
The brushstroke
25
8
Brushes and their impression
The use of brushes
Strokes and patches
Applying impastos and blending
Fruit
Blocking in and planes of objects
33
8
Blocking in and composition: oilpaints and charcoal
Bloking in shapes as geometrical figures
Taking advantage of blocking in
A sketch for every method of work
Bottles with tablecloth
Beginning a painting with diluted paint
41
8
The order of color: fat over lean
Diluting the color on the palette
Applying patches of color and using the wide brush
Painting the canvas with patches of diluted colors
Still life sketch
The palette knife
49
8
Applying impastos
Rectifying
The use of the palette knife
The texture of oil paint with the palette knife
Landscape
Applying the color base
57
8
Coloring the background and superimposing planes
Diluted areas
Suggesting forms with color
Building up forms
Landscape with garden
Development of the painting
65
8
Roughing out with diluted colors
Superimposing layers and corrections
The density of paint
Color applications and blends
Figure in backlighting
Obtaining tones and direct methods
73
8
Blending colors on the canvas
Principles of value painting
The impressionist technique
Working directly on the canvas
Landscape and river
Palette knife and brush
81
8
Palette knife and brush: Painting with impasto
First impastos
Techniques with the palette knife
Palette knife textures
The riverbank
Combined techniques
89
8
Oil over acrylic
Textured painting
Finisning the painting with oils
Color base and drying
Figure using mixed techniques
From blocking in to roughing out
97
8
Blocking in a human figure
Roughing out and construction of the figure
Blocking in urban landscapes
Development of the roughing out process
Human figure
Still life: glazes, highlights and shadows
105
8
Tonal work
Shadows and atmosphere
Light and shadow with glazes
Situating glazed tones in the painting
Still life.
Modeling with oils
113
8
Modeling a still life
The use of the brush and color
Modeling a human figure
The color of light
Female nude.
Flowers.
121
8
Dabs of color and glazes
From roughing out to highlighting
The background in a still life with flowers
A very practical technique
Flowers with dabs of color
Depth in the landscape
129
8
Building up a landscape
Patches of color
Various textures
Depth and color
Landscape
The sky
137
8
The structure of clouds
The use of white
Color in the horizon
Sketches -Sky with clouds
Trees and plants
145
8
Sketching a tree
The crown of trees and the atmosphere
Branches
Groups of trees
Trees in the distance
The way they painted: Claude Monet
153
6
Water lilies
The way they painted:Vincent Van Gogh
159
6
Pink peach tree in bloom
The way they painted:Andre Derrain
165
6
The Algerian
The way they painted:Paul Cezanne
171
 
Still life