Oil Painter’s Solution Book: Landscapes
A 224-page book, now in paperback, by Elizabeth Tolley
Elizabeth Tolley designed this book around answers to questions her students have asked over the years and it illustrates Libby’s process of painting both on location and in the studio. Over 30,000 copies of the book have been purchased by artists in all mediums and it is in it’s third printing.
Spend less time reading and more time painting with award-winning artist and instructor Elizabeth Tolley as she answers over 100 of the most pressing questions artists have about painting landscapes in oil. The handy Q&A format covers everything from basic brush techniques to deciding what to paint first while on location. Each answer is short and simple so you can get back to painting.
Learn how to:
- Choose the right materials for you.
- Prepare indoor and outdoor workspaces.
- Design spectacular compositions.
- Select eye-catching color for visual impact.
- Paint with new brushstrokes and techniques
- Evaluate your own work.
- Including 10 mini-demonstrations to help refine your technique and 7 complete step-by-step projects.
Popular landscape questions include:
- What type of palette should I use?
- How do I divide space in my painting?
- How does light change at different times of day?
- Can I work back into a dry painting?
- How can I see and correct mistakes?
- Get the answers to all these questions and more!
Elizabeth Tolley
Elizabeth Tolley
Elizabeth Tolley “Libby” Tolley is an award winning American landscape painter and author.
Libby Tolley has studied with a number of respected painters and is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America, the National Watercolor Society and Alla Prima International. She is also an elected member of the American Artist’s Professional League. As a lifelong, self-motivated student, Libby has developed her artistic abilities by seeking mentors who guided the development of her talent. Working first in watercolours, and then expanding to include oil painting, Libby’s career has attracted the attention of editors, museum directors, gallery owners, and collectors. Her work can be found in many private and corporate collections, and several galleries represent her. Her work has appeared in many national exhibits, books and and magazines.
Living on California’s Central Coast, her focus has been painting the rural landscape from life. Libby’s home and studio are located in a canyon on California’s central coast, near Morro Bay, surrounded by orchards and grazing cattle. From her new studio she can hear the sounds of birds and water in the creek outside. Layon from the Vault Gallery said after visiting, “it is like walking into one of her paintings”. To continue the tradition of helping other artists develop their talents, Libby teaches several workshops each year, outdoors as well as in her studio and uses her newsletter and blog to answer questions and offer painting solutions.
Elizabeth Tolley says: “As a landscape painter, I seek to find the subtle nuances; the color, light and shapes that help create a sense of place. Capturing the mood and heartbeat of the land, as I experience it, is important to me. My focus has been painting the Central Coast landscape as it is today. While I don’t paint to record, many of my painting sites have changed or are already a memory. My goal is to create paintings that honor my subject and nourish my soul. I’m striving to understand the light and then take it and the subject matter to a feeling, an idea of what it feels like to be present in the location. I have always associated painting the land as a way of connecting to something much greater than myself.”
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Image at the top:
“Winter Light on the Valley Oak” oil on linen by Elizabeth Tolley, from the book
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