Welcome to My Studio: Adventures in Oil Painting

Using her own paintings and sketches done during her life as an artist, Van Wyk guides readers to an artist's understanding of: the beauty of gray the background's effect on color how to paint glass eyes and expressions the shine and shape of metal objects how to paint white things the technique of the old masters the three basic paint applications and more. Her instruction is as clear as her artwork is beautiful. Artists will find out about "The 7 Components of Pictorial Expression." They'll learn four steps to painting any flower and see comparisons of stages of works in progress. A colorful, practical, fruitful journey for an oil painter.

Helen Van Wyk was an inspiration to thousands of artists. During her lifetime, she wrote many instructional books and was well known for her popular PBS series "Welcome to My Studio."