How I Paint: Secrets of a Sunday Painter

What is the by which into process a painting comes into being? What goes on in the artist's mind? What different techniques are used in creating a still life, landscape, or portrait? In this look at the complex, often mysterious painting process, painter/museum director Thomas S. Buechner combines clear how-to instruction with striking insights to help us look at pictures in a wholly new way.An expert on painting techniques, Buechner offers valuable tips for both amateur and professional painters on traditional methods that many schools do not teach today. An impassioned painter himself, whose work hangs in Thc Metropolitan Museum of Art and thc Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, Buechner includes illustrations of many of his most inspired paintings and drawings -- some shown in step-by-step series with enlarged details -- illuminating for us the intimate relationship between the artist and his materials.