Product Description

Water-Soluble Oils Have Arrived!

This invaluable guide provides you with the information you need to master this exciting new medium. You'll learn what water-soluble oil color is, its unique characteristics and why it's generating so much enthusiasm among your fellow artists.

You'll find a lengthy chapter packed with step-by-step demonstrations provided by some of the best artists working in water-soluble oils today. Soon, you could be one of them.

Water-soluble oils make oil painting easier and more fun than ever before, plus you get gorgeous results. You may never go back to traditional oils again!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104695 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

From Library Journal
Dye is an artist, an instructor at the University of Vermont, and a technical consultant for manufacturers of art paints. In his opinion, the advent of water-soluble oil paint is as revolutionary as the emergence of acrylics was in 1950. The jury is still out. In the meantime, Dye has written the most comprehensive exploration of the medium, which retains the traditional characteristics of oil paint but is mixed and thinned (not to mention cleaned up) with water. By the 1980s, most schools and universities had banned the use of solvents in art departments, effectively banning the use of oil paints. With water-soluble oils, the toxic solvents associated with working in oils can be eliminated, making it safe to reintroduce oil painting to the classroom. Water-soluble oils and traditional oils don't behave identically on the canvas, however. (The latter holds a brush stroke more firmly than the former, for example.) Dye clearly lays out differences in pigments, light-fastness, opacity, texture, and application. Eleven artists add demonstrations and personal opinions to this important addition to the field.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Sean Dye, a full-time artist and an expert in this new medium, and is the Materials Specialist and Technical Consultant for Holbein and Strathmore for water-soluble oil paints and pastels. This means that he tests and demonstrates the products not as a scientist but as an artist. He is also an instructor in the fine art department at The University of Vermont and has taught a variety of art classes and workshops.