Traditional Oil Painting by Virgil Elliott
Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other booksellers, also from Utrecht art supply stores and Daniel Smith Inc. Below is a link to it on Amazon.com:
How to Calibrate Your Monitor
The scale below should read as eleven gradations of gray, plus #1 being black. If it is not, adjust the brightness and/or contrast on your monitor until each
numbered rectangle is distinguishable from the one(s) adjacent to it.
The square below is a test of your monitor's gamma adjustment. At a distance of eight feet, the smooth patch should appear neither lighter nor darker than the background around it if the gamma level is properly adjusted.
