 | Oil Painting Secrets from a Master: 25th Anniversary Edition by Linda Cateura
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.69 Essential reading for any realist oil painter! The cover art is reproduced a bit too yellow, but the paintings shown in this book are superb and the writing is of a high quality too. This book is perfect for serious painters!
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 | Velazquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $31.50 Just wonderful, and more close-up detail images than any other book I've seen.
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 | Rembrandt: The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering
Buy new: $24.42 / Used from: $19.95 Excellent! Great images. Although much of the text is very technical and concerned with small details.
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 | Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $23.22 |
 | Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.90 |
 | Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.81 |
 | The Painter in Oil by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $11.40 |
 | Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present by Virgil Elliott
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $23.28 |
 | The Encyclopedia Of Oil Painting Techniques: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Techniques by Jeremy Galton
Buy used from: $10.78 Highly recommended for beginners and experienced artists alike. This book gives a basic overview of techniques and each technique is illustrated either with a step by step example, or a selction of relevent artworks. Very easy to read and simply writen. Contains a varied selction of paintings too which is useful, although the quality varied a bit.
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 | How to Paint Like the Old Masters: Watson-Guptill 25th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Sheppard
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.00 Does just what it says on the cover! Well, near enough, it is a good start anyway. Don't be put off by the daggy cover art, there are some wonderful (if slightly dated in some cases) paintings inside and most importantly, all images are reproduced at a reasonable size so you can see properly what is happening.
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 | Drawing and Painting Animals: How to Capture the Essence of Wildlife in Your Art by Edward Aldrich
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.12 Pretty solid, but could be a lot longer; some of the sections were very brief.
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 | Welcome to My Studio: Adventures in Oil Painting With Helen Van Wyk by Helen Van Wyk
Buy used from: $14.23 Covers the basics in a simple and clear way without being a 'paint by numbers' type book. It is a little bit 'amaturey' though as some others have commented... but I also very much admired her technique in some of the still lifes in particular (especially the white on white one with the eggshells; inspiring!).
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 | Portraits in Oil the Van Wyk Way by Helen Van Wyk
Buy used from: $27.98 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Painting Flowers the Van Wyk Way by Helen Van Wyk
Buy used from: $58.45 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | John Sloan on Drawing and Painting by John Sloan
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.18 All text, no images except the cover - be warned!
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 | Hensche on Painting by John W. Robichaux
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $17.21 All text, no images except the cover - be warned!
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 | Hawthorne on Painting
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.75 All text, no images except the cover - be warned!
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 | The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated (Artists' Handbook of Materials and Techniques) by Ralph Mayer
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $20.77 Once you've learned how to paint better, make sure you know how to paint so that your art will be around and in good condition for years to come! This book is very VERY technical (and hard going to read), but contains good information on materials as regards the longevity of your work.
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 | The 20th Century Art Book (Phaidon) by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.74 A bargain if you can get a second-hand copy for just $2 as I did recently.
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 | The Cat in Art by Stefano Zuffi
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $16.97 A truly beautiful book! A real bargain too at this price, for such a big and beautifully done hardcover.
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 | 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $20.36 Lets you see a vast array of paintings all in one book - inspiring. I do wish some of the images were BIGGER though. It weighs a ton too, but then, it would!
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 | Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life by James H. Rubin
Buy new: $27.20 / Used from: $8.48 Recommended!
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 | 1000 Masterpieces of European Painting: From 1300 to 1850 (Art & Architecture) by Christiane Stukenbrock
Buy used from: $6.99 A beautiful book, and a bargain if you can get a second hand copy for just 6$ as I did. Well written and well-designed too.
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 | British Portrait Miniatures (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks) by Graham Reynolds
Buy new: $28.30 / Used from: $27.03 A beautiful book.
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 | Lucian Freud (Basic Art) by Sebastian Smee
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.24 A great overview, especially for 10$. The reproductions were of a high quality and the text was pretty good too. The only thing lacking was close-ups of the work so you could see the painting technique.
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 | Gustave Courbet: 1819-1877 (Taschen Basic Art) by Fabrice Masanes
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.25 A great overview, especially for 10$. The reproductions were of a high quality and the text was pretty good too. The only thing lacking was close-ups of the work so you could see the painting technique.
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 | Rene Magritte 1898-1967: Thoughts Rendered Visible (Basic Art) (Basic Art) by Marcel Paquet
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.84 A great overview, especially for 10$. The reproductions were of a high quality and the text was pretty good too. The only thing lacking was close-ups of the work so you could see the painting technique.
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 | A Trick Of The Eye: Trompe L'oeil Masterpieces by Eckhard Hollmann
Buy used from: $15.28 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Techniques of the Great Masters of Art (A QED Book) by Waldemar Januszczak
Buy used from: $21.83 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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| ART AND ILLUSION: A STUDY OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION. by E.H. Gombrich
Buy used from: $20.75 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Durer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery by Jill Dunkerton
Buy new: $35.40 / Used from: $11.90 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery (National Gallery London Publications) by Jill Dunkerton
Buy new: $35.50 / Used from: $15.99 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Buy used from: $24.95 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Caravaggio by Catherine Puglisi
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $15.50 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Johannes Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock
Buy used from: $14.95 This one is just on my wishlist as yet, but looks wonderful!
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 | Big Art, Small Canvas: Paint Easier, Faster and Better with Small Oils by Joyce Gordon
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $9.72 Good and bad parts.
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| Miniature Painting: A Complete Guide to Techniques, Mediums, and Surfaces by Joan Cornish Willies
Buy used from: $52.76 Very disappointing.
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 | Painting Great Pictures from Photographs by Hazel Harrison
Buy used from: $10.00 Aimed at amateurs rather than experienced painters, and much of the book illustrates works in pastel or acrylics rather than oil.
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 | Painting Nature by Peggy Harris
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $10.84 Fairly average, not recommended.
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 | Painting Nature's Little Creatures by Stephen Koury
Buy used from: $19.48 Fairly average, not recommended.
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