Since the time when the great master Van Eyck faced the invention of oil painting, a lot of water has flowed in the stream... of painting. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Ingres, Delacroix, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso: each of these great painters tried to exhaust the possibilities offered to the artist by oil colors.
In this book, after a historical retrospective and reference to the evolution of oil painting, a series of tools and materials used in oil painting are presented: color making, varnishes, solvents, packaging and brushes, in other words, all the "equipment" of the artist.
However, a series of exercises in oil painting could not be missing from a manual like this: with examples and advice, with distinct and easy "color structures", the reader will learn how to paint a cube, a sphere, a still life, etc. in different stages.
And because practice is half without theory, there is a chapter dedicated to harmony and color theory, so that the painter can acquire a broader knowledge of the relationships that exist within the painting.