This painting is pretty amazing, wouldn’t it be great if this guy wrote a book on painting? Well he did! “The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing” by Solomon J Solomon (1860-1927) I guess I am a little behind here but this used to be a difficult/expensive book to come across, it looks like Dover reprinted it this year with an introduction by James Gurney. The Amazon link is below.
The book not only goes over his techniques of Oil painting and underlying principals of Figure Drawing but the Techniques of Several other schools of painting including the Dutch, Spanish, French and British with examples of each. I just started reading it and its fantastic!!!
Here is the Amazon link to the book. Happy Painting !
