--- product_id: 153441450 title: "Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors" price: "8570CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/153441450-oil-painting-essentials-mastering-portraits-figures-still-lifes-landscapes-interiors store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors **Price:** 8570CFA **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors - **How much does it cost?** 8570CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/153441450-oil-painting-essentials-mastering-portraits-figures-still-lifes-landscapes-interiors) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors. Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials , artist and art instructor Gregg Kreutz shows how a multi-genre approach can dramatically improve your painting skills. Arranged by category, each chapter covers both the essentials specific to that subject matter and those that apply to all genres. Through step-by-step lessons and examples from his own oil paintings, Kreutz shows how you can strengthen your skillset for one genre by painting in another. This comprehensive exploration of the conceptual and practical issues behind oil painting provides all of the tools and encouragement you need to successfully take on any type of oil painting. Review: Great Book to Improve Your Paintings - This is a fantastic book for people already familiar with oil painting. It's not a "how to paint" book but rather "how to improve your paintings" book. I've already tried some of the suggestions and I'm really happy with the results. The book itself is beautifully printed with shiney thick paper and beautiful color images throughout. The writer is entertaining as well as informative. I very much enjoyed reading it. Review: It is filled with amazing information about painting and examples of his many years ... - Gregg Kreutz’s new book Oil Painting Essentials is a real page-turner! Really, every page is packed with so much “essential” and vital information that I couldn’t put it down. It is filled with amazing information about painting and examples of his many years of experience as a teacher. The book contains wonderful examples and demonstrations that illustrate the ideas he wants to convey and in language that is very easy to comprehend. However, what really strikes me is how Gregg has simplified the enormously complex subject matter in his inmitible easygoing style that gets right to the heart of the matter. There is no fat in this book. Rather each page is filled with his years of experience brought down into palpable essentials that can be put into practice immediately. In addition the information is delivered with generosity, clarity, precision and great humor and wit. I love this book!!! Brilliant ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #949,826 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #53 in Still Life Art #64 in Oil Painting #233 in Art Study & Teaching | ## Images ![Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91EPKphP2vL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book to Improve Your Paintings *by K***N on March 4, 2025* This is a fantastic book for people already familiar with oil painting. It's not a "how to paint" book but rather "how to improve your paintings" book. I've already tried some of the suggestions and I'm really happy with the results. The book itself is beautifully printed with shiney thick paper and beautiful color images throughout. The writer is entertaining as well as informative. I very much enjoyed reading it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It is filled with amazing information about painting and examples of his many years ... *by A***S on June 5, 2016* Gregg Kreutz’s new book Oil Painting Essentials is a real page-turner! Really, every page is packed with so much “essential” and vital information that I couldn’t put it down. It is filled with amazing information about painting and examples of his many years of experience as a teacher. The book contains wonderful examples and demonstrations that illustrate the ideas he wants to convey and in language that is very easy to comprehend. However, what really strikes me is how Gregg has simplified the enormously complex subject matter in his inmitible easygoing style that gets right to the heart of the matter. There is no fat in this book. Rather each page is filled with his years of experience brought down into palpable essentials that can be put into practice immediately. In addition the information is delivered with generosity, clarity, precision and great humor and wit. I love this book!!! Brilliant ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NOT FOR BEGINNERS BUT INTERESTING TIPS *by V***O on December 12, 2020* I did not want to dowload this book, but it seems I did it with the tricky click. it is the second time it happens and I will not be reimbursed so I have gone through the book. I think this book is more for the ones who took art classes as readers are I guess supposed to already know how to draw and to paint. No material guidance here. That being said the author goes back to the main problems one can encounter and I like the fact that contrarily to many others he show what Not to do and not what to do. Thus there are 6 ways one should avoid to render shadow on an apple for example. It is a very difficult goal to explain how tk paint especially through a book. I think practice is the key. Contrarily to what people think to master painting you need an eye and a lot of practice with determination and regularity. There is no secret. You have to learn and you can buy all the books on earth about how to to, you need to train, train your eye your hand and try try try no matter what. Sure predisposition or talent is important, but work is more important. This book might help, but it is not the key that in a few hours will make you an artist. Picasso worked a minimum of 8 hours a day everyday. Whatever some people think of his paintings he worked hard and had understood very early a few concepts. Not everything is in books, but even if this one might be a good reading and gives pieces of advice when you are stuck in your process or rendering it is not the miracle book you might hoped for. 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