The Painter in Oil
A Complete Treatise on The Principles and Technique Necessary to The Painting of Pictures in Oil Colors
By Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Pupil of William Sartain, of Bouguereau and Tony-Fleury, and of Aimée Morot; Member of the New York Water Color Club; Formerly lecturer on art in Dickinson College; Author of Sketching From Nature, etc.
“La peinture à l’huile est bien difficile; Mais beaucoup plus beau que la peinture à l’ea.”
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
1898
Preface.
Contents.
I. General Observations
II. Canvases and Panels
III. Easels
IV. Brushes
V. Paints
VI. Vehicles and Varnishes
VII. Palettes
VIII. Other Tools
IX. Studios
X. Mental Attitude
XI. Tradition and Individuality
XII. Originality
XIII. The Artist and the Student
XIV. How to Study
XV. Technical Preliminaries
XVI. Drawing
XVII. Values
XVIII. Perspective
XIX. Light and Shade
XX. Composition
XXI. Color
XXII. Representation
XXIII. Manipulation
XXIV. Copying
XXV. Kinds of Painting
XXVI. The Sketch
XXVII. The Study
XXVIII. Still Life
XXIX. Flowers
XXX. Portraits
XXXI. Landscape
XXXII. Marines
XXXIII. Figures
XXXIV. Procedure in a Picture
XXXV. Difficulties of Beginners
Copyright, 1898, By Lee and Shepard
All Rights Reserved
The Painter In Oil
Typography by C. J. Peters & Son
Pressword by Berwick & Smith, Norwood Press
Norwood Mass.
To
A.M.P
This book is affectionately inscribed.
September 4th, 1897.