Oil Painting Secrets From a Master

Some of the most popular art instruction books ever written have been based on student notes culled over the years from actual workshop sessions with all their power and immediacy - and with practical on-to-one contact between student and teacher. This is such a book. For more than two years Linda Cateura has pursued teacher / artist David A. Leffel notebook in hand as he critiqued the work of students. Linda Cateura's succinct notes capture his insights philosophy painting hints and general comments.<br><br>Leffel's classic painterly twentieth-century old master style much in the manner of Rembrandt or Chardin affords ample illustration of the ideas expressed - through his many paintings details demonstrations and diagrams almost all in color.<br><br>No matter what your level of ability there is something here to apply to your own work ideas that will cause you to rething your own ways of painting hints to save you effort or solutions to persistent painting problems.