Discover how to get great results with puffy paint, acrylics, oil pastels, alcohol inks, gelatos, art pens, watercolors, and more. Make mental notes about the way the light hits the water, how the colors change depending on the depth and motion of the water, and the shapes that repeat. It will make you look at paintings differently and think about paint differently. I would only recommend this book to intermediate and advanced students of drawing painting, as beginners will be sorely disappointed that this is more of a historical paper with short bursts of information for the starter in oils.
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