This is a comprehensive oil book for beginners and intermediate oil painters with nine full landscape demos covering value, equipment, work habits, seeing, drawing, colour and composition. It advocates a light-on-the-feet approach that gives artists flexibility to improvise according to the needs of the subject and conditions of the moment. The book encourages readers to paint from the heart rather than straining for product. Its visual appeal will attract and hold the attention of the bookstore browsers.

About the Author

George Allen Durkee is a San Francisco street painter turned Northern California landscape artist and gallery owner. He co-owns The Art Gallery in Murphys, California where he creates and sells his inspired landscape paintings. He has written articles for The Artist's Magazine and American Artist.