Techniques in Painting: Learning from the Dutch Masters

Description

A 'How to' book of step-by-step projects featuring painting techniques used by the Old Masters such as Rembrandt. Techniques in Painting is a richly illustrated book that teaches readers how to develop their painting skills by practising techniques used by the Old Masters. Brigid Marlin is an award-winning and highly experienced artist who has been using and teaching these techniques for decades. In these pages, Brigid Marlin explains how to paint a portrait in the style of Rembrandt, through step-by-step stages such as applying a red ground colour, painting in white egg tempera and applying a yellow glaze. Marlin explores still life painting through the art of the Italian Renaissance and the Mische technique, and throughout the book, by detailing how ancient skills can be revived and added to the artist's toolkit, shows readers how to achieve effects that would otherwise be out of reach. Beautiful and detailed photographs cleverly illustrate each stage of the various projects and demonstrate how final creations come to life. Stunning works from the author's talented artist friends and former pupils conclude the book and show how the Old Masters' techniques are still enthusiastically followed by many around the world.

Brigid Marlin is an artist with an international reputation. Her early training took place in the leading art schools of Dublin, Paris and New York and she later studied with the famous visionary artist Ernst Fuchs in Vienna, before joining him as a teacher on his annual summer schools. She has exhibited, been an artist in residence, and taught in the UK, the USA and several other countries. Her portrait of the author J.G. Ballard sits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, one of P.L. Travers hangs in Wellesley College in the USA, and Lord Longford's one is held in the House of Lords. Her works are also exhibited in The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of American Artists and Illustrators. Her full biography can be viewed on her website brigidmarlin.com/Artist.html