ISBN: 0760371350 9780760371350

Category: Art / General

Page count: 176

<b><i>The Landscape Painter’s Workbook </i>is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting.<br><br></b>Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this <b>richly informative</b> and <b>beautifully illustrated</b> 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 <b>lessons</b>, <b>practical exercises</b>, and <b>special topics</b>, including:<br><br><ul><li><b>The Complete Color Strategy.</b> What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting’s strategy?</li><li><b>Notan. </b>Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.</li><li><b>Picture Formats. </b>How does the picture format—horizontal, vertical, or square—affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?</li><li><b>Color Grouping. </b>A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups.</li><li><b>Composition. </b>An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example.</li><li><b>Workshop Exercises. </b>Instead of demonstrations that show how the author paints, <i>The Landscape Painter’s Workbook</i> includes 10 skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential lessons on your own.</li></ul><br>With <b>examples of work by 45 contemporary landscape painters—more than 80 paintings in all—​</b>in <b>oil</b>, <b>acrylic</b>, <b>pastel</b>, and <b>watercolor</b>, 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.<br><br><i>The Landscape Painter’s Workbook</i> inspires and informs all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, on how to <b>successfully portray the majesty and subtlety of the natural world</b>. <p><br>The <b>For Artists series</b> 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.</p>