Painting Like the Impressionists

Impressionism, an art movement pioneered by a handful of avant-garde painters based in Paris in the
1870s, gave academic oil painting a vivacity and spontaneity it had previously lacked, and remains to
this day the single most popular style of art for gallery-goers and amateur painters alike. This
elegantly-written book, by a professional artist and scholar, is both an instructional guide to
incorporating Impressionist techniques into your own painting, and an illuminating investigation into
how those first Impressionists actually painted their pictures. As such, it will fascinate both the painter
and the art historian. This new book provides detailed advice on paints, brushes and canvas, as used by
the original Impressionists and still widely available today. It discusses the process of making an
Impressionist painting from initial vision to final completion and analyses the role of composition, light
and tone, colour and paint handling. Finally, it gives an overview of the subject matter most closely associated
with the Impressionists.