This book is not just another guide for beginning artists . It teaches a special vision, teaches to understand and convey subtle shades of light and color in oil and pastel painting in the way that impressionist artists did. Forget about complicated theories. This book will teach you to rely only on your own immediate perception, ignoring biased ideas about the world around you. Learn about how the color of an object is related to the color of the objects around it, and how the characteristics of the color change depending on the time of day, seasons, weather conditions and other factors, which are too many to create a ready-made formula of real color. Through this book, you will learn to see any subject exactly as it really looks, without relying on all past ideas about it. This is the main secret of creating the full, shining color and unique light that we find in the works of great impressionist artists.