Best books to learn Oil painting, in order

Oil painting rewards a build-up: understand your materials and color first, then drawing and value, then the layering and glazing techniques that give oils their depth. A path keeps you from fighting the medium before you understand how it behaves.

Reading paths for oil painting

Learn oil painting: from first strokes to finished work

Beginner8books37 hrs5 stages

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Popular oil painting books

The oil painting course you've always wantedKathleen Lochen Staiger · 2006

Keys to drawingBert Dodson · 1985

The painter's handbookMark David Gottsegen · 1993

Color and lightJames Gurney · 2010

The practice of oil painting and of drawing as associated with itSolomon J. Solomon · 1911

Oil painting for the absolute beginnerMark Willenbrink · 2010