Painting as a Language: Material, Technique, Form, Content

by Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson

Book Overview

Designed to address the issues of how to paint and what to paint, PAINTING AS A LANGUAGE covers a wide range of information of central importance to beginning and intermediate painting instruction.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015505600X
• ISBN13: 9780155056008
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Painting as a Language:Material, Technique, Form, Content

This is a required book for painting class. Looking through it, it is packed full of lots of information, as an artist, you can never stop learning.

This is what I have been looking for!

I have been looking for this type of concise information about oil painting. I have only been painting in oils for a little over a year. This is the missing link, the information that is skipped in oil painting classes (at least the one I took). I guess they think you already know the basics. Glazes, mediums, and much more are explained. This covers more than just the techniques in learning to paint, it teaches you to tap into your creativity. Lots of easy to understand exercises. I wish there were more color examples. I would like to see the entire book printed on better paper.