Product Description

Every artist can capture the stunning beauty of the seasons with Tim Deibler at their side. He teaches readers how to understand light and truly see their subjects in step-by-step lessons that include:

* Ideas and exercises for mastering the four keys to any successful painting--shape, value, color and edges

* Side-by-side comparisons of the same scene painted in all four seasons

* Tip boxes in every section that provide quick and useful bites of information

* Five practical, hands-on strategies for starting any painting

It's never been easier for beginning and advanced landscape painters to make their work more captivating!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109347 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-18
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

The best companion for an artist
As a fine arts professional and art teacher, I've bought hundreds of drawing and painting books extracting the best.
In Tim Deibler's "Capturing the seasons in Oils"I have extracted almost all the parts of the book soo useful they are!
The book have treasures of basic and indispensable topics as in Chapter 1 "The four key elements of painting" - explaining Shape, Value, Color and Edge ( The edge part its wonderfully detailed).
In "Painting methods" Tim not only describes the techniques but shows the thing with terrific illustrations!
In "plein air painting" You have a fine selection of equipment and delightful titles as "I'm outside, Now what?"
On the last part of the book you have precious step by step demonstrations with detailed materials as paints,brushes and other supplies in little tips boxes.
A clear up to the beginners and the advanced!

If you buy this book I'm sure that by itself it will be your best companion and instructor for long long time !

EXCELLENT!
I have greatly enjoyed all the works by this artist. His instructional video of this title is right up there at the top of all art videos. I've never seen an artist paint so fast and loose, and tie it all together into such inspiring pieces. His mastery of color and how he does his mixing is exciting and quite unique. Never seen anything like it.
Worth every penny!!

Sloppy
Too Loose and sloppy

Tim's DVD by the same title is especially bad. The production is good but Tim's technique is quite sloppy even for quick studies.

Better choices would be "14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes" by Barbara Nuss and "Painting Better Landscapes" by Margaret Kessler other notable publications by Gregg Kreutz, David Leffel and Richard Schmid would be a wise investment.