Product Description

Designed to address the issues of how to paint and what to paint, PAINTING AS A LANGUAGE covers a wide range of information of central importance to beginning and intermediate painting instruction. The authors emphasize the value of the student's cognitive understanding of the process and potential of painting in the student's overall progress in the studio. Blending journal writing with painting and drawing exercises, they guide the student through selecting meaningful subject matter as well as becoming adept at shaping and interpreting that material through the language of painting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154793 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

This is what I have been looking for!
I have been looking for this type of concise information about oil painting. I have only been painting in oils for a little over a year. This is the missing link, the information that is skipped in oil painting classes (at least the one I took). I guess they think you already know the basics. Glazes, mediums, and much more are explained. This covers more than just the techniques in learning to paint, it teaches you to tap into your creativity. Lots of easy to understand exercises. I wish there were more color examples. I would like to see the entire book printed on better paper.

Painting as a Language:Material, Technique, Form, Content
This is a required book for painting class. Looking through it, it is packed full of lots of information, as an artist, you can never stop learning.