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Norrette Moore

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This is the free online book/s discussed on p.9 of Leisure Painter. It's by artist Paul Hollingsworth and at first glance is a comprehensive set of volumes about Oil Painting. Several hundred pages make up the two volumes published online. Its well indexed and seems to cover everything the new artist needs to know, as well as some controversial points of view. The article in LP is headed "Oils made easy", but I think its more thorough than that. Warning - the website needs a good editor.  I renders badly on my tablet using either Firefox or Chrome, but once you load up the book, it all fits and is zoomable. https://www.oilpaintingcontroversialviews.com/about I may be some time...

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Robert Jones, Napa

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How far have you got?  If you find anything controversial, share it  here, because I don 't see myself ploughing through all this yet awhile.    I noticed the endorsement for Michael Harding and Wallace Seymour oil paints, though - which I'd certainly share. 

Norrette Moore

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He's put his glossaries, appendices etc at the front.  So I'm starting at A.01 Historical, which then discusses movements in art. I think it's not a cover to cover read, more a dip in and out. Its almost as if the last, as yet unpublished, volume is in actuality the first. So the two available items are the details underpinning volume one. It's possible to download to your PC or tablet, and then the pdfs are easier to navigate, albeit without the clickable links. Controversial?  Well, he calls some art boring.  But I'll ignore that.  (I might guess it is funded by paint manufacturers, I might guess wrong.) He certainly uses a lot of paint in his own work.