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Here is everything you need to know about getting into oil painting—and maintaining a safe, solvent-free oil painting practice—in a slim, sophisticated guide.

Oil painting is an exciting and adventurous medium, but aspiring artists can feel daunted by complex setups and the thought of using harsh chemicals. All of that changes now. The New Oil Painting walks you step-by-step through oil painting fundamentals—which materials you actually need, how to mix paint, how to set up your painting space—and, most revolutionary of all, how to eliminate harmful solvents from your work and replace them with safe, effective substitutes. This instructional handbook is organized into chapters with helpful diagrams throughout illustrating various techniques and tools. Whether you're a true beginner or have been painting with oils for years, you will find that this book has everything you need to build a new, thriving, toxin-free practice.

• UNIQUE APPROACH: Not only does this book help aspiring artists build a repertoire of skills and materials, it also offers all artists, regardless of their experience levels, methods for eliminating solvents and other toxic substances from their oil painting practices. What was once a dangerous pastime is now a guilt-free, health-conscious, and rewarding activity. And using safe, nontoxic materials is better for the environment!
• LONG-TERM USE: Good art instruction can deliver over a long period of time, and this handy guide is no exception. Along with being able to use this as an entryway into oil painting, you can also use it for reference or reread sections when you need a brushup.
• EXPERT AUTHOR WITH IMPRESSIVE CREDENTIALS: Painter Kimberly Brooks was the founding arts editor at Huffington Post. As a painter, she exhibits her work frequently throughout the United States and was a featured artist with the National Endowment for the Arts. She has led oil painting workshops, and now she shares her vast knowledge of the subject in this accessible and comprehensive handbook.

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• Artists and art aspirants interested in exploring a new medium
• Experienced oil painters looking to eliminate solvents from their practices
• Painting students and teachers

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18 May 2021
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"A one-stop resource for both experienced and novice artists who want to paint in oils without exposing themselves and the environment to harsh solvents." -Artists Magazine

"This is no ordinary how-to-paint book. Instead, artist Brooks assumes readers have mastered the rudiments of the art and focuses on the composition of materials required for painting, such as solvents like turpentine (which, in her opinion, are to be avoided) as well as everything else comprising the paint environment." --Booklist Starred Review

"I learned to think about paintings three-dimensionally...among many other things. I now know things about linseed oil its own mother doesn't know." --Cintra Wilson, culture critic for The New York Review of Books

"Insightful, straightforward.... I have been painting for a long time, yet I learned many things from this book. It would be a great addition to any studio--keep it near your painting table." --Enrique Martinez Celaya, artist

"It's strange, since so many thousands of people enjoy (and are obsessed by) painting, that there is such a lack of good guidebooks. There are some amazing doorstops that are nearly impossible to use, and there are dozens of colorful how-to manuals that offer limited information. Kimberly Brooks's The New Oil Painting is unique in the field: it's comprehensive, up to date, and friendly--exactly what painters need to have by their side." --James Elkins, Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of What Painting Is --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Kimberly Brooks is a contemporary American painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. The New Oil Painting is her first book. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0916BTTGJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books LLC (18 May 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Kimberly Brooks, (b. New York, NY) is a contemporary American artist and author. Brooks whose work integrates landscape, figuration and abstraction to address subjects of history, memory and identity. Her work has been exhibited and featured internationality. Books featuring her work exclusively include Brazen: A Painting and Poetry Collection and Fever Dreams. Brooks is also the author of The New Oil Painting (Chronicle Books). An award-winning educator, Brooks conducts workshops, speaks about her work, painting and creativity at art schools and online. www.kimberlybrooks.com

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Alison Michaela

Your oil painting obsession starts here

Reviewed in Australia on 5 June 2021

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This book has saved me years of trial-and-error experimentation in working with oil paint. As an acrylic artist I was long in awe of the grand tradition of oil painting but felt overwhelmed by all the equipment and put off by the dangerous solvents I believed were necessary for the practice.

Kimberly Brooks has allayed all my concerns in this engaging and accessible guide that revives the non-toxic techniques of pre-nineteenth century painters. I now enjoy the freedom of working with oil in almost any setting and experience a greater creative freedom without the guesswork.

Kimberly Brooks’ knowledge, whilst steeped in history is imparted with the practical know-how of a practising, contemporary artist who is literally in conversation with today’s art world.

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Deirdre E Siegel

Oil painting explained

Reviewed in Australia on 5 May 2022

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This is a book about Oil Paint,
it’s applications, surfaces, tools,
and safety when utilizing them :-)

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disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 September 2021

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I started painting with oils about 2 months ago. To understand the medium I have read a fair bit online and in the books/magazines. I bought this book to learn what's new in oil painting, 'new' I haven't come across yet, especially how to not use any solvents, odourless or not. Sadly, out of about 200 pages there is very little information about this, in fact perhaps less than 10 pages and even that I had to look up online to understand further and was surprised to find much more information there. The rest is your usual - paints, brushes, set up, support...

I so wish the author would expand much more on the way she uses solvent alternatives but all what's offered is few recipes and then recommendation to experiment. Also, adding pictures to illustrate various ways of solvent alternatives would greatly enhance the book.

I have found very little new in this book and am returning it.

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Larry D. Marshall

Behind The Scenes Of Oil Painting

Reviewed in Canada on 19 November 2021

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This isn't a "how to" book on painting. If we use driving a car as a metaphor, this book is more about how the engine and brakes work. As such, it fills an important information deficit we find in most general painting books. You learn about paints, mediums, surfaces and how each is formulated and why they work the way they do.

The author's principle theme is that oil painting doesn't have to use toxic chemicals and she succeeds in that. I think the one weakness of the book is that she mostly dismisses modern water-mixable oils, which may be a better alternative to her own approach. Unto itself this isn't a problem but to not even discuss them beyond an acknowledgement that they exist stands out as a deficiency in my view.

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Instructif et bien écrit

Reviewed in Canada on 18 May 2022

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Pour tous les niveaux de peintres

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Courtney Daniels

THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE

Reviewed in the United States on 30 May 2021

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It's like an art education packed into one little slim volume! I've been painting, with both acrylics and oils, for over 25 years, yet I learned so much. I had abandoned oils because I was tired of living with the smell of turpentine. But it's disappointing to go back to acrylic paint after the richness and nuance of oils! The plastic-like quality of acrylic paint and its super-fast drying time means you don't have time to work--it's already drying before you've even had a chance to think about what you're doing. And it looks more garish and amateurish, to me. I just love oil paint, and this book made it possible for me to embrace it again. Plus, you learn so much about how to set up your workspace, what traits different pigments have and why (I always knew some colors were thinner and some were more opaque than others, but I didn't know why!), what kind of palette to get and how to mix colors on it, and more. The chapters are short and sweet and the illustrations are charming and helpful. The author is a great guide to both beginners and experienced painters. Cannot recommend this book enough. Get it and start painting with OILS!

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Kate

Only for beginners

Reviewed in the United States on 16 September 2021

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I was disappointed. I expected an in-depth discussion and instead got a shallow, superficial book. In the short bit about alkyd mediums she virtually dismisses them. She is glib about materials being “toxic” without any true understanding of what the term means. Her fear of “toxicity” is distressingly simplistic.

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