Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, the "Collins You Can Paint" series should give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in oils. All the instruction is broken down into easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky and finally how to paint a simple foreground, so that in the end you can paint a complete landscape in oils.