10 best-selling nonfiction books like The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices by Kimberly Brooks

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The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices

By: Kimberly Brooks

4.21

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Here is everything you need to know about getting into oil painting—and maintaining a safe, solvent…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices by Kimberly Brooks , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present

By: Virgil Elliott

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

The onlybook that lets artists explore the highest levels of realistic oil painting. As more and mo… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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2. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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3. Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color

By: None

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

These pages practically glow with Kevin Macpherson's rich and powerful paintings He shares his tech… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction

4. Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist

By: Carol Marine

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and … read more

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5. A Complicated Kindness

By: Miriam Toews

3.68

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voic… read more

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"But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief."

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

"He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using."

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

"...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?"

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

"One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey."

-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

6. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

By: Jenny Lawson

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris--Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her lit… read more

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7. The Raw Shark Texts

By: Steven Hall

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to… read more

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8. Lessons in Classical Painting: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier

By: Juliette Aristides

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

A companion volume to Lessons in Classical Drawing and an atelier in book form,Lessons in Classical… read more

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9. Cat's Eye

By: Margaret Atwood

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city… read more

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10. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

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11. Thirst for Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more

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"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

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12. This Is Happiness

By: Niall Williams

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more

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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"

-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

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13. Laziness Does Not Exist

By: Devon Price

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human … read more

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  • nonfiction
"If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural."

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

"This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others."

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

"We live in a world where hard work is rewarded and having needs and limitations is seen as a source of shame. It's no wonder so many of us are constantly overexerting ourselves, saying yes out of fea…"

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

"If you're entitled to moments of rest, of imperfection, of laziness and sloth, then so are homeless people, and people with depression, and people who are addicted to drugs. If your life has value no…"

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

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14. How to Be an Artist

By: Jerry Saltz

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • how to
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

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15. Tidal Creatures (Alchemical Journeys, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City… New York Times bestselling author Seanan M… read more

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16. The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women

By: Anushay Hossain

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Explore real women’s tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researc… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Oil Painter's Color Handbook: A Contemporary Guide to Color Mixing, Pigments, Palettes, and Harmony

By: Todd M. Casey

4.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary and accessible foundation of color theory and advanced techniques for the oil painte… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices by Kimberly Brooks

18. The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices

By: Kimberly Brooks

4.21

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Here is everything you need to know about getting into oil painting—and maintaining a safe, solvent… read more

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19. The Artist's Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity (The Art Of The Possible Series Book 1)

By: Nancy Hillis

3.93

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you always dreamed of being an artist? You’ve tried it in your free time but you’re nervous t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Beginner’s Guide to Oil Painting: Simple Still Life Projects to Help You Master the Basics

By: Craig Stephens

4.47

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

The Easy Way to Get Started with Oil PaintingCraig Stephens has a simple motto for With a brush, s… read more

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  • nonfiction

8 Best art books like The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices by Kimberly Brooks

Transform Your Habits

Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present

Virgil Elliott

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color

None

3.79

Transform Your Habits

How to Be an Artist

Jerry Saltz

3.94

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Transform Your Habits

Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for

Jeff Goins

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Ted Orland , David Bayles

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic

Lisa Congdon

4.08

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