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Haidee-Jo Summers' artwork is filled with light and vibrancy. Her friendly, instructional style will demystify oil painting and show you how to use this traditional medium to create contemporary portraits, landscapes, still life and more, all suffused with the unique warmth and richness of oils. This book is ideal for painters at any level of experience, from complete beginners looking to start out with oils, to advanced painters wishing to pick up new ideas and techniques.
Fresh, bright and accessible, this vibrant book is a real feast for the eyes. It provides step-by-step instruction, projects and numerous examples of Haidee-Jo's finished art, from cafes in Seville to her local allotments, giving the reader a wealth of inspiration and ideas for producing stunning oil paintings of their own.
Haidee-Jo Summers is an award-winning artist whose work has appeared in exhibitions worldwide. Oils are her preferred medium, though she has taught in many different media, on subjects ranging from gardens to portraits. Hooked on plein air painting, Haidee-Jo paints anywhere, no matter how busy or crowded the setting, how complex the scene or how difficult the weather.
Since graduating from De Montfort University in 1994, Haidee-Jo has received many awards for her work and been elected to membership of the prestigious Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Royal Society of Marine Artists. Her work, which features fresh and vibrant brushwork coupled with keen drawing and observational skills, has an international following. She is an editorial consultant for The Artist magazine and her first book on oil painting, Vibrant Oils, was published in 2017.
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November 2017
Award-winning artist. Haidee-Jo Summers has written her first book -Vibrant Oils- for Search Press and vibrant it certainly is! Haidee-Jo's work is filled with light and colour and her application of oil paint is sumptuous. The medium is brought up to date in her hands, resulting in luminous oil paintings that look as though the paint is still wet to the touch. As well as the inspirationthere is plenty of technical advice. Four step-by-step projects will help you to work alongside the artist to achieve your goals.
Inject freshness and vibrancy into oil paintings with Haidee-Jo's style that demystifies the media to create contemporary work. Subjects include portraits, landscapes, still life and more. The book is aimed at any level from beginners to those looking for new techniques. Fine everything you need to know including alla prima, colour and painting figures. 4 very good step-by-step projects are included - cafe scene, a female portrait, the boats seen on the front cover and a garden. The contents are divided into introduction, materials, inspiration, oils, drawing, alla prima, composition, values, colour, plein air, sketching, figures plus the projects and greys, lost and found (edges), your voice and the index. The book is highly instructional with excellent text - every word counts. Much of the painting is like cameos and the book is full of examples of her painting. I love the snow scene of the allotment, it is so fresh with excellent light. However, I personally find her work rather sketch-like and prefer my oils a bit more traditional. An interesting book none the less that I believe will deservedly have wide appeal. Of all the oil paintings books I have read, I think this is very useful.
October 2017
This is amazing. Books on oil painting are a rare thing, but this is a whole lot more than that. You could, in fact, ignore the medium completely and treat it as a guide to the practice and philosophy of being an artist. For a start, it's not insubstantial, although the paperback format tends to disguise that. It is also filled with illstrations that cover just about every subject you might want to tackle. Badly-handled, this could lead to superficiality, but there are examples, demonstrations, hints, tips and breakout panels that keep you interested throughout. Haidee-Jo's style will be familiar to The Artist readers - it has a vibrancy that enthuses itself and contradicts the often worthy reputation of oil painting. This is a book to revel in. Open it and you will be lost for a considerable time. Although comprehensive, it's never verbose or confusing and is constantly delightful.
This is really rather wonderful. The initial impression, picking it up, is that its more than usually substantial and, at 176 pages, it most certainly is. A quick flick through reveals a wealth of illustrations and an enormous variety of subjects. Haidee-Jos style is loose, relaxed and colourful and this doesnt, on the surface, feel like an oil painting book, insofar as those are often rather lofty and worthy. The truth is that its not really a medium book at all, but rather a guide to the whole creative process that just happens to use oils as its vehicle. Id even go so far as to suggest that you could find plenty to get from it even if you never had any intention of working in the medium at all.
Investigate further and the next thing you might notice is that, for all its size, there are only 4 step-by-step projects. This is entirely in keeping with the approach, which is to teach you about the subject, rather than simply to train you to emulate it. In the old analogy, it teaches you to fish and feeds you for life, rather than giving you a fish and feeding you for a day. Subject matter is catholic and includes landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, figures and flowers.
Along the way, Haidee-Jo considers composition, colours, light, cropping, the use of layers, tone and more. Some sections are quite short paragraphs, some are sidebars and others simple hints. Everything is accompanied by an example painting and the explanations are commendably clear.
Haidee-Jo Summers eagerly anticipated first book on oil painting will delight her peers and oil painting students alike. She invites the reader to enjoy an intimate journey through her seemingly effortless working methods and techniques to produce fresh and vibrant oils, full of light and clean colour. But this isnt just an invaluable book on alla prima and layered oil painting techniques, its also an insight into a top professional artists thoughts on inspiration, composition, drawing and seeing. Its a must-have book for all aspiring oil painters, full of fabulous, impressionistic oil paintings covering all figurative subject matter, with many inspirational exercises to help build confidence and improve technique.
By Haidee-Jo Summers
£15.99
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