Easy Oil Painting: Beginner Tutorials for Small Still Life [Paperback]

If youve always wanted to try your hand at still life oil painting, this comprehensive guide is the book for you! A complete introduction to oil painting for beginners, award-winning and professional artist, Estelle Day, will walk you through everything you need to know to be successful in small-scale oil painting. Accessible and unintimidating, Easy Steps to Oil Painting focuses on painting small canvases that are no bigger than a 5-inch square so you can worry less about composition and focus more on the actual subject! Learn key painting techniques through 10 step-by-step project tutorials and work with several different shapes, colors, and textures to grow your painting and layering skills! Easy-to-follow instructions, as well as Trace-This-Linework sketches, are also included, making this must-have guide a great starting point for beginning artists!A complete introduction to still life oil painting for beginners, this must-have guide will walk you through everything you need to know to be successful in small-scale oil painting. Accessible and unintimidating, Easy Steps to Oil Painting focuses on painting small canvases that are no bigger than a 5-inch square. Learn key painting techniques through 10 step-by-step project tutorials and grow your painting and layering skills! Easy-to-follow instructions, as well as Trace-This-Linework sketches, are also included, making this guide a great starting point for beginning artists!

• An accessible guide for beginners to learn how to oil paint on a small scaled with canvases measuring no more than 5-inch squares.
• Less daunting subject matter so aspiring artists can focus more on the actual subjects theyre painting, rather than a large composition.
• Includes 10 step-by-step still life painting tutorials with simple Trace-This-Linework sketches for those who lack confidence drawing their subjects.
• Author Estelle Day is an award-winning proflsã