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# How to Paint Like the Old Masters, 25th Anniversar y Edition: Watson-Guptill 25Th Anniversary Edition

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- **What is this?** How to Paint Like the Old Masters, 25th Anniversar y Edition: Watson-Guptill 25Th Anniversary Edition by joseph sheppard
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How to Paint Like the Old Masters, 25th Anniversar y Edition: Watson-Guptill 25Th Anniversary Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Not "...LIKE the old masters" - but  "...with the old masters' obsolete materials"
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 April 2015*

PAINT LIKE THE OLD MASTERSThis 36-year-old publication, reprinted more than once, obviously still commands a lot of attention, mainly, I would think, because of its title; who, indeed, wouldn't want to paint like the old masters - if he could ?However, as other reviewers have pointed out in the past, the author's work doesn't even bear a passing resemblance to such, by deliberate intent on his part, as he declares at the outset (he doubtless didn't want to be accused of starting a school for scoundrels).  A more accurate, albeit a bit less catchy, description of the contents would be "how to paint using the methods and materials of a few of the old masters".  But reading about all the palaver involved, such as washing linseed oil ("shake the mixture twice a day for 7 days"), black oil (first find your lead), mastic varnish ("Expose the mixture to the sun for several days, turning the jar occasionally"), I am led to wonder why on earth anyone would want to. I'd rather use the time actually painting, with just acrylic and water - perfectly capable of producing an excellent pastiche of any old master in a tenth of the time - and not only superior in just about every way to these antediluvian methods and materials - but safer.Painting should be fun - and there's plenty to be had here if, for example, you're a beginner; for the painterly techniques employed, the grisaille, the glazing, the toned canvas, etc., are all equally applicable to the superior and healthier modern medium, enabling one to ignore all the tedious palaver demanded of ancient methods.Joseph Sheppard's work is something of an acquired taste; he painted for a particular audience, of which I am not a member. However, I do have a couple of of his other books, and find them, like this one, entertaining and sometimes informative food for thought, albeit irrelevant in terms of a style to emulate.  If you want to paint portraits and figure studies (and that's all you will find herein) in the style of these 16th and 17th century masters, the best way is to buy monographs and practice copying from the illustrations using modern materials; if, on the other hand, you truly want to paint with the desperately inconvenient materials of the ancients, there are plenty of other books exclusively on that subject to consider - not least a few contemporary with the old masters themselves.

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    A very informative book .
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 October 2009*

This one book contains far more information on techniques of painting than I was taught in a year of Higher Art Education . If you are a painter who wishes to advance your knowledge of Oil painting technique , you might well find this book as helpful as I have .  Although it is true that many of the paintings included are quite unlike those of the artist they attempt to mimic , this is a relatively trivial flaw and can be easily put down to the sheer difficulty involved in attempting to closely emulate so many markedly different styles . What the author does do is seemingly to incorporate what he regards as the major elements of each of the artists work into a painting that remains chiefly 'his own work '. The chief exception to this rule is probably the 'Rubens' portrait , which actually does closely resemble a painting by Rubens . What is most valuable about the book is the plethora of information about colour technique , the use of mediums and the differing processses that the artists allegedly used during the manufacture of their paintings . Although I suspect that some of this information is assumed to be true by the author , rather than having been actually proven to be , this again , as a problem , pales in comparison to the fact that much of what he observes here is probably very close to the truth and is information that has  seemingly  been virtually lost by the modern education system .

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    OK book
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 November 2021*

OK book

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