Oil Painting Step by Step ─ Discover a Wide Range of Painting Styles and Techniques for Creating Your Own Masterpieces in Oil

Aspiring oil painters can take a journey with four accomplished oil artists as they follow along with step-by-step demonstrations that feature a variety of techniques and a range of subject matter. Artists of all skill levels will appreciate the appeal of each approach as they learn to paint tropical seascapes, pastoral landscapes, dynamic still lifes, captivating animal portraits, and more. Oil Painting Step by Step walks you through concepts and techniques including underpainting, composition, plein air, and special effects, assuring you a solid foundation in this wonderful art form.

Caroline Zimmerman began painting in oils at age 6, earned her bachelor of fine arts in illustration from California State University in 1989, and obtained her master of fine arts in painting from the California College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland in 1994. She currently resides in the artists’ community of Laguna Beach, where she has lived, surfed, and painted for more than 18 years. Caroline travels extensively and enjoys painting abroad, most notably in Italy. She has exhibited at the Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts for 15 years. Her work is featured in galleries in Laguna Beach, as well as in Mono County in the Sierras, Sonoma, and Mammoth Lakes.