The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted
Guided Lessons for Beginners & Experienced Artists
Kathleen Staiger
ISBN: 0-8230-3259-0
Watson-Guptill
Book (Paperback)
$24.95
8 1/2 x 10 1/2
176 pages
200 color illustrations
July 2006

• A complete, foolproof primer
• Includes author’s surefire method of color mixing—refined through thirty-five years of teaching
• Step-by-step lessons, complete with diagrams, exercises, and demonstrations

Everything you always wanted to know about oil painting...but were afraid to ask. Or maybe you weren’t afraid—maybe you just didn’t know what to ask or where to start. In The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger presents crystal clear, step-by-step lessons that build to reinforce learning. Brush control, creating the illusion of three dimensions, foolproof color mixing, still-life painting, landscapes, and portraits—every topic is covered in clear text, diagrams, illustrations, exercises, and demonstrations. Staiger has taught oil painting for more than thirty-five years; many of her students are now exhibiting and selling their paintings. Everyone from beginning hobby painters, to art students, to BFA graduates has questions about oil painting. Here at last are the answers!

Kathleen Staiger has taught painting and drawing at every level for more than thirty-five years. A graduate of Hofstra University with masters degrees in art and literature, she is currently on the faculty of the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Florida, where she lives.