The Landscape Painter's Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to
the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape
painting.
Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell
Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated
volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from
establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying time-tested
color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and
special topics, including:
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The Complete Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color
contrast that guide a painting's strategy?
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Notan. Explore this special type of compositional study, which
identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.
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Picture Formats. How does the picture format--horizontal,
vertical, or square--affect the composition? What are the pros and
cons of each?
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Color Grouping. A full chapter details this special practice,
which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited
number of groups.
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Composition. An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active
negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each
example.
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Workshop Exercises. Instead of demonstrations that show how the
author paints, The Landscape Painter's Workbook includes 10
skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential
lessons on your own.
With examples of work by 45 contemporary landscape painters--more than
80 paintings in all--in oil, acrylic, pastel, and
watercolor, the lessons are suitable for all mediums. Each painting
is thoroughly analyzed in terms of shape, composition, or color, with
supporting diagrams, thumbnails, and photographs.
The Landscape Painter's Workbook inspires and informs all artists,
from aspiring to accomplished, on how to successfully portray the
majesty and subtlety of the natural world.
The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all
skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting
skills and create realistic and representational art.