Vernon Kerr invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to re-create an array of beautiful seascapes and landscapes in oil, with tips on choosing the best painting surfaces and materials. In this book, he explains his personal approach to painting and a variety of special oil techniques, as well as his own step-by-step method of developing a painting to its fullest. Moreover, you'll find a wealth of beautiful and inspiring landscape and seascape paintings to both copy and admire!

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Walter Fosters's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire the artistic talent in anyone.

Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.

What you'll learn from this book...

• Selection and proper use of materials
• A step-by-step process for painting wet-on-wet, from canvas preparation to final details
• Skills for completing a painting in one afternoon
• How to use special medium to move, remove, and blend color directly on the canvas
• Handy tips on color mixing, blending, correcting mistakes, caring for equipment and more
• Techniques for painting landscape elements such as foliage, water lines, snow, ice and reflections

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