{"product_id":"problem-solving-for-oil-painters-9780823044085","title":"Problem Solving for Oil Painters","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProblem Solving for Oil Painters\u003c\/strong\u003e by Kreutz, Gregg. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780823044085.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally - a book to help you solve all your painting problems!\n\nInside youll learn how to study a painting and correct problematic areas. Study topics include:\n\nIdeas\n- Is there a good abstract idea underlying the picture?\n- What details could be eliminated to strengthen the composition?\n- Does the painting have a focus?\n- Are the unessential parts subbordinated?\n- Does the painting \"read\"?\n- Could you finish any part of the painting?\n\nShapes\n- Are the dominant shapes as strong and simple as possible?\n- Are the shapes too similiar?\n\nValue\n- Could the value range be increased?\n- Could the number of values be reduced?\n\nLight\n- Is the subject effectively lit?\n- Is the light area big enough?\n- Would the light look stronger with a suggestion of burnout?\n- Do the lights have a continuous flow?\n- Is the light gradiated?\n\nShadows\n- Do the shadow shapes describe the form?\n- Are the shadows warm enough?\n\nDepth\n- Would the addition of foreground material deepen the space?\n- Does the background recede far enough?\n- Are the halftones properly related to the background?\n\nSolidity\n- Is the underlying form being communicated?\n- Is the symmetry in perspective?\n\nColor\n- Is there a color strategy?\n- Could a purer color be used?\n- Do the whites have enough color in them?\n- Are the colors overbended on the canvas?\n- would the color look brighter if it were saturated into its adjacent area?\n\nPaint\n- Is your palette efficiently organized?\n- Is the painting surface too absorbent?\n- Are you using the palette knife as much as you could?\n- Are you painting lines when you should be painting masses?\n- Are the edges dynamic enough?\n- Is there enough variation in the texture of the paint?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Watson-Guptill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254230900789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0823044084","price":35.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780823044085_0fccf6d4-3354-467b-942a-723c8c529393.jpg?v=1779956683","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/problem-solving-for-oil-painters-9780823044085","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}