I agree mostly with the other reviews concerning the thorough explanations and well-written instructions, as well as beautiful work produced by the author. My problem with the book is that the author/artist glazes absolutely EVERYTHING in every painting. Her style of painting in oils is virtually identical to using watercolors, and quite the opposite of using glazing in a 'classical' oil painting style, which is what I was looking for. Most of the classical masters used glazing of color only after a full umber underpainting and a dead layer (black and white), then proceeding to glaze color and finally ending with more opaque paint in the final layer(s). This is the kind of instruction I was looking for, and as good as the book is at displaying the author's technique it is virtually a textbook on using oils in the style of watercolors. Example: anything 'white' in the painting is simply the canvas showing through, as in watercolor, and each layer is painted from the lighter areas to eventually the darker areas in very thin transparent layers. To sum up, this is a good book and artists can learn from it, but I was expecting the glazing process to be a smaller part of the whole procedure, not the whole procedure itself.