Painting with Oils (02)

Noel Gregory shows how to paint beautiful oil paintings using over 80 step-by-step photographs and a variety of inspirational pictures. Simple skills are developed using a series of demonstrations which show how to create perspective, light, shade and tone.

Contents include, using a limited palette, painting a landscape, painting skies, painting trees, working from photographs, adding foreground detail and painting flowers.

Noel Gregory studied at High Wycombe College of Art and Bournemouth Teacher Training College. He owned an art gallery near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire for twenty-five years, dealing with Victorian pictures and later his own work. He now makes a living as an artist, specialising in oil painting, and sells his work internationally. Noel lives in Dyfed, south-west Wales, and when not painting, enjoys diving and collecting marine shells from around the world.