Painting In Oil Louise Mc Laughlin 1888

PAINTING IN OIL, A MANUAL FOR USE OF STUDENTS by M. Louise McLaughlin PAINTING in oil offers a means of artistic expression more nearly perfect than that afforded by any other method. Whatever may be the especial charms of other mediums, this must ever remain the one which gives the freest range to the capacity of the artist, and the most direct and complete facility in the representation of nature. The subject is, therefore, one of great importance from an artistic point of view, and one into the consideration of which I might hesitate to enter did I not venture to believe that some of the facts in regard to its technical aspects which will be found in the following pages, may be of use to others.