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Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice by Mitchell Albala

 

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LANDSCAPE PAINTING:
ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR PLEIN AIR AND STUDIO PRACTICE

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©Watson-Guptill/Random House, 2009 | watsonguptill.com
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8230-3220-4 (0-8230-3220-5)
Price: $35

"This book will become a new classic manual of landscape art." – Katherine Tyrrell / makingamark.com

"A book that takes you as seriously as you take your subject" – ArtBookReview.net

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Landscape Painting is an extremely practical guide. Lessons are backed by over 230 illustrations — diagrams, photos and paintings by the author and 40 contemporary and classic landscapists.

Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice is a practical guide to all aspects of landscape painting. The book's essential lessons are drawn from the author's twenty-five years of landscape painting experience and methods proven successful in his workshops held over the past twelve years at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle.

Based on observation rather than imitation and applicable to both plein air and studio practice, the book is organized around the conviction that landscape painting presents a unique set of challenges that require a genre-specific approach. The book explores these challenges fully:

Simplification and Massing: Learn to reduce nature's complexity by looking beneath the surface of a subject to discover the form's basic masses and shapes.

Color and Light: Explore color theory as it specifically applies to the landscape and learn the various strategies painters use to capture the illusion of natural light.

Selection and Composition: Learn how to compose with a limited focus and how to find the essential cues necessary to build an illusion of depth within your paintings.

The lessons in Landscape Painting are richly supported with over 230 illustrations: photographs, diagrams, step-by-step demonstrations, and over 40 examples of contemporary and classic painters. Many books on landscape painting focus on how to paint specific landscape subjects, such as seascapes or sunsets. The lessons in Landscape Painting, however, are observation-based, teaching the painter how to think like a landscape painter and acquire the translation skills and techniques to solve problems in all types of landscape situations.

Beautifully written and, at 192 pages, Landscape Painting is a comprehensive and serious companion for anyone getting started in landscape painting, as well instructors or more experienced painters who want to improve their skills and explore new perspectives.