{"product_id":"problem-solving-for-oil-painters-recognizing-whats-gone-wrong-and-how-to-make-it-right","title":"Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make it Right","description":"Finally - a book to help you solve all your painting problems!\n\nInside you'll 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?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0823040976\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0823040976.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kreutz, Gregg\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41580404244538,"sku":"DBV.0823040976.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0823040976-0.jpg?v=1785992805","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/problem-solving-for-oil-painters-recognizing-whats-gone-wrong-and-how-to-make-it-right","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}