Water-Mixable Oils

Aimed specifically at beginner’s, Sarah Wimperis’s new book will encourage and inspire those new to the medium to explore the world of water-mixable oil paints, which off all the qualities of traditional oils, but without the need for solvents.

A thorough introduction to the medium and how to us it is followed by six projects. The first looks at how to explore colour to paint in the style of Van Gogh. Other projects include still life, landscapes, abstraction, buildings, and working from a photograph. Each of the projects is clearly explained with step-by-step processes and plenty of top tips from an expert tutor.

The medium’s main advantage is being odour-free, making it user-friendly in an environment shared with non-painters. It’s also quicker to dry and requires less messy cleaning up so, basically, a virtuous circle.

All of this makes using the water-mixable (they’re not actually soluble) variant of oils ideal for the beginner or someone who wants to experiment with the medium…. Sarah recognises the elementary appeal by choosing relatively simple subjects and including lots of hints, tips, exercises and demonstrations. In fact, she’s produced a pretty effective introduction to painting in general – if that’s you, or someone’s asked you for advice, you could do a lot worse than start here.

…it’s user-friendly and Sarah covers the subject completely without going into more detail than she need or should.

Sarah Wimperis is a professional artist who paints en plein-air in oils and watercolour. Her larger paintings are often completed using plein-air reference either at home in her studio or on her travels in her mobile studio.

Sarah has exhibited many times with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, in the Discerning Eye exhibition and with the Royal Society of British Artists. She was the only English artist who worked on Loving Vincent - the world’s first fully hand-painted feature film - about the artist Vincent van Gogh and his paintings. Sarah also provided the artists’ perspective for the audio guide for the Tate Britain exhibition, ‘Van Gogh and Britain’.

Sarah runs regular workshops and gives talks and demos; she is also an established illustrator and author. She has worked for the BBC on the children’s storytelling series Jackanory; with the National Trust; and many other organizations in the UK and worldwide.

Sarah lives in Cornwall, UK. This is her first book for Search Press.