Alla Prima
Everything I Know About
Painting
Richard Schmid
The best selling book, "Alla Prima- Everything I Know About Painting", by world renowned artist and author, Richard Schmid is now available in soft cover. Now in its 6th printing, "Alla Prima" provides amateur and professional artists alike with invaluable painting techniques and information not readibly available in art Schools. Writing as an acknowledged master, Richard Schmid shares his wisdom and technical savvy of a lifetime of painting and teaching. With an emphasis on Direct Painting ( painting directly from life), Schmid's ten concise chapters on drawing, values, edges, color and light, and composition and technique, provide readers with knowledge and solutions to help increase their artistic skills. Lavishly illustrated with the 118 full color reproductions of the artist's paintings and how-to-demonstrations, Schmid writes with deep affection to all who strive for self expression regardless of their level of skill. He shares his own struggle from art school to the present and offers his insights with the hope that his reader may enjoy the same passage of discovery and creative fulfillment.