How to Paint
Your Own Vermeer: A Translation of a Great Master's Painting Materials and
Methods for Contemporary Artists
by Jonathan Janson
Feb. 2006
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Which materials and techniques did
Johannes Vermeer use to create his masterpieces? Is it still possible to
emulate those methods today? Contemporary American painter Jonathan
Janson, who has studied Vermeer's painting techniques and experimented
with them in his own work for more than twenty-five years, provides
in-depth information and practical advice on how to reproduce Vermeer's
day-to-day working procedures as closely as possible. Detailed
explanations and nimages document each and every step, not
only of Vermeer's painting procedures, but also indispensable historical
and theoretical background regarding the art and craft of Northern
seventeenth-century painters.
Palette, drawing, pigments, brushwork, mediums, glazing, grounds,
chiaroscuro, perspective and camera obscura are a just few of the topics
which will be thoroughly analyzed as they are gradually encountered
during the progress of a hypothetical painting by Vermeer.
Although this book is based on the author's website, 'How to Paint Your
Own Vermeer,' it has been completely reedited and greatly expanded in
order to offer the most organic and detailed assessment of the Delft
master's painting technique available today. The text, with more than
100 pages, will be accompanied by hundreds of high-resolution color
images on an accompanying CD ROM.
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