This book was a wonderful surprise! I expected it to be a quick glazing of terms and instructions on how to paint in the modern day with lots of the authors own works shown step by step and instead what I got was a stage by stage, thoroughly detailed instruction guide on how to begin painting! I should mention that it is also useful for those who have been painting and want to detoxify their studio practices. As a baker, I could compare this to the rarely seen, fully instructional guides to cooking that doesn't assume that everyone knows the difference between types of oils or eggs and which pan to use when. I left this reading excited by the thought of diving in to a new hobby and confident to go to the store and know what I was looking to purchase rather that just scanning the unknown. I loved that Kimberly Brooks kept this NON-TOXIC, what a welcome perspective and she describes her reasons for doing so compellingly in the book. She gives advice as well as options and I really like her style! At first, it took me a bit to get used to the almost hand written, journal style of the book with little doodles marking chapters and columns but just as I was getting into that vibe, boom.. she drops page after page of gorgeously staged photos of the simplest of materials (I mean how gorgeous is paint coming out of the tube) without fussing too much. This book publishes May 4th, 2021 and I recommend this brilliant book for the beginner or for anyone looking to modernize their practices!

The New Oil painting is a great guide for beginners as well as skilled artists, as it gives some really good advice and tips. The New Oil Painting covers materials (what you should have in your studio, brushes, substrates, solvents, mediums, etc) Digital Technology (Photoshop, art software), mixing colors, cleaning supplies, varnishing, and safety. The New Oil Painting also includes a handy Glossary of terms and a list of additional resources.

Thank you for the advance copy, I enjoyed it.

As someone who enjoys oil painting, I thought that this book was instructive and interesting read. This book goes over the basics for oil painting, from brushes and canvas types to the paint and cleaning solvents you should (and shouldn't) use. It even goes over the best way to store your work, and talks about the importance of documentation! It is true that oil painting is much more complex than water-based acrylic, and it was great to have a quick crash-course to reintroduce all of this information to me. I thought it was an excellent book and am so thankful to NetGalley for the free ARC!! Thank you!

When I first started painting, I used oils, and had a jar of turps near by, but some years back when I decided to take a painting course, oil painting was considered too dangerous and I had to settle for acrylics. The acrylics never had the same pull for me or created the effects I wanted. Since then I discovered water based oil paints and am happy with the choice.
This book will opened your eyes to the why and what for about the oil painting medium, how to create your own, discover the basics of commercial safe oil paint and a lot more including safe canvases, extenders and mediums.
This book has been a long time coming, and should be read by all new and experienced oil painters - the information is extensive and really worth knowing.
Highly recommended

I'm very disapponted by this book. Yes it has very much useful information, specially on materials,, but very few colored images (only on 15 pages of 214). The rest is text, text, text, with very simple little symbols or objects in black (no color),, Painting is visual art, we need pictures, illustrations, give us colors please. This book reminds me of some 100 year old art instruction books, a lot of text, very few unexciting black and white images. They are too boring for the modern reader, so is this one, despite the good information it contains. Art needs excitement and inspiration,

I really liked that the book introduces how to paint solvent-free with oils. Oils are weird to try out because at the start you just dont know what to buy and this helps alot.
There also is some great knowledge about pigment in here.

This is an excellent guide for artists to use nontoxic, safe oil painting supplies. Brooks points out that many artists mistakenly believe that they need to use toxic cleaners, paints, thinners, etc. and it's completely untrue. The book is really designed for serious artists and there were times when the talk was over my head, but I appreciated the wealth of information.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.