Painting Great Masters by Numbers by Ivan Hissey with Curtis Tappenden

Painting Great Masters by Numbers

Or How to Paint When You Don’t Know How

by Ivan Hissey with Curtis Tappenden

The Ivy Press, The Book People, 2003, colour photographs and illustrations throughout, colour illustrated frontispiece, illustrated title page, paperback with wraps

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, (see photographs)

“There are simple lessons to be learned from even the most skilled of the Old Masters, and Painting Great Masters by Numbers offers a course in some surprisingly accessible techniques.  Thirty works, each one a masterpiece, by artists ranging from Botticelli to Whistler are created step by step, and each is used as the focus for a lesson in painting colour, depth, light and shade.
Along the way, you’ll learn how to handle a range of different media, but because each technique is introduced in context, all the lessons are unintimidating and enjoyable.  Many Great Masters had apprentices, and copying from a master-artist is a traditional method of learning the skills of drawing and painting.  It will also help you to understand how artists have been influenced by other works, and how everything is created as a result of something that has gone before.
Whether you dream of putting a Van Gogh on your wall or of holding your own in an imaginary painting contest with Vermeer, this book will get you started.”