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Title: throw this book away
Review: Utterly useless book. Aside from being difficult to follow, the author gives a narrow view of painting methods that focuses on a strangely configured method of direct painting. He even goes so far as to give some dangerous advice; like allowing your recently worked on oil paintings to dry in front of the fire or in direct sunlight! Both are extremely hazardous to the drying paint film-DONT DO THAT.I was looking for some inside types on Venetian, Flemish or French Academic style painting technique, but found some strange, obscure English method of painting. It doesn't read so much as a concise manual but a long, wandering, incoherent philosophy of painting. It is purely decorative writing by an artist that never really seemed to produce anything of any interest. This book belongs with the authors book on drawing, in the garbage. You are better off reading Cennino Cennini, Vasari or Da Vinci.CCJ
