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Art Book Review

Please enjoy this review by our very own Jeff Otis

Timeless Techniques for Better Oil Paintings  by Tom Browning

This is the kind of book that can benefit every painter in the beginning stages of their development and is a good review for more advanced painters.  Browning covers all the basics and uses his own paintings to demonstrate the application of these ideas.  Color intensity and temperature, value, edges, and composition are presented in an easily understood format with many examples.  Browning does a nice job analyzing composition and showing how the basic ideas are used to accentuate the centers of interest and flow in paintings.  Equally valuable are his presentations of compositional errors and their resolution.   In the example on the left, the bright leaves behind the more distant figure don’t quite work.  Browning’s solution appears below the original.   It is fun to imagine other solutions to the same problem.  I strongly recommend this book to begin your “how to” library. 

Other fantastic “how to” books I recommend are books by John F. Carlson, Edgar Payne, Richard Schmid and Dan McCaw.   Many masters never wrote books themselves, but, you can also gain a tremendous amount by studying reproductions of their works;  masters like Sorolla, Monet, Hennings, Higgins, N. C.  Wyeth, Sargent, Cornwell, Van Gogh and others. 

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