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Washor, an art teacher and painter, describes how to create paintings of still lifes and landscapes on smaller scales. Many color images illustrate techniques relating to the characteristics of color and three-dimensional composition. She also details the tools needed, how to create a palette, and other general tips, as well as concepts relating to perspective, geometric forms, and scaling down. Demonstrations walk readers through several projects and show each stage of the image. There is no bibliography. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Think Big. Paint Small!There are a lot of big reasons to paint small. Smaller canvases allow you to enjoy everything you love about oil painting with less expense, less mess, less space and less time. What could be better?Big Art Small Canvas gives you all the guidance you need to succeed at creating small paintings. It features more than 12 step-by-step demonstrations that show you how to paint a variety of still lifes and landscapes—all on canvases measuring four inches or less! You'll quickly learn how to:select good supplies on a budgetmix colors the right way, the first timescale down your subjects to fit a smaller areacreate dimension, depth and volume in your compositionspaint realistic shadows and highlightscapture a range of textures and reflective surfacesEach demonstration guides you from blank canvas to completed painting. You'll even find sound advice for framing, displaying and marketing your work.Great things really do come in small packages. Start maximizing the rewards of oil painting with Big Art Small Canvas!
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