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The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices Kindle Edition
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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.
Perfect for:
• Artists and art aspirants interested in exploring a new medium
• Experienced oil painters looking to eliminate solvents from their practices
• Painting students and teachers
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherChronicle Books LLC
- Publication date18 May 2021
- File size11165 KB
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"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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- ASIN : B0916BTTGJ
- Publisher : Chronicle Books LLC (18 May 2021)
- Language : English
- File size : 11165 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 245 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 66,756 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 14 in Oil Painting
- 24,680 in Textbooks & Study Guides
- 63,713 in Kindle eBooks
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About the author

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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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.
it’s applications, surfaces, tools,
and safety when utilizing them :-)
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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.

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.




Reviewed in the United States on 30 May 2021

