Harold Speed

[Denise Hall]

I am reading the Harold Speed book on oil painting right now and I wish I could find more time to read instead of work/teach/paint so I could finish it. It really is so "in depth" compared to anything else I have read regarding technique.

Mr. Speed seems to be talking to you while you are reading it - as if he is teaching you in a classroom and lecturing - yet, it's very informal. One part I just read about color, for example, tells about when he was painting William Holman Hunt (Pre-Raphaelite fame); while he was painting him - Holman Hunt told him of the technique the Pre-Raphaelites used to draw/underpaint. Being a Pre-Raph nut myself, I was just in awe and for some reason, had never heard this before.

He seems to be covering everything I need right now to spur me on at the easel.

Marvin Mattelson talks so much about this book and I see why now that I ordered it!

Thank you one more time, Mr. Mattelson.