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How do you paint an orange where it looks good enough to eat? Or paint the highlights on a silver urn? The author takes twenty such problems and explains, in fully illustrated step-by-step demonstrations, exactly how to paint them. Here are some of the things the reader will learn to paint: the glitter of diamonds and the opaque glow of pearls; a worn leather saddle; the weathered wood of an old bucket; a glass mug filled with frothing beer; the texture...
16) Brushstrokes
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John Virtue is painting an impressionist landscape on an enormous canvas laid out in a field. While he paints, he discusses how he expresses himself artistically through creative brushstrokes rather than through realistic imagery. Through Virtue we learn how the elevated social status of artists in general, and physical changes in the composition of paints, have allowed for more artistic experimentation with a wider variety of mediums and techniques....
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One of a series on the history of painting techniques, with interviews with contemporary artists and reconstructed scenes from earlier times: the work of British painters, Ben Johnson (b.1946), who often works from photographs, and Patrick Hughes, (b.1939), who paints three-dimensional illusions.
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