Johannes Vloothuis – författare

Secrets to Painting Beautiful LandscapesPainting the landscape can be fun and rewarding--if you make the right decisions as you paint. After all, it is the artist's greatest challenge to somehow capture a sense of it all--the grandness, the majesty, the splendor of nature--with just a few strokes of paint on a canvas. Popular art instructor Johannes Vloothuis makes the process a whole lot easier with the essential techniques, key concepts and expert advice he shares in this book.Learn straightforward strategies to make your paintings more interesting and dramatic, such as simplifying the foreground, composing with abstract shapes and harmonizing colors.Discover speci?c techniques for painting landscape elements including mountains, water, foliage, snow and more.9 step-by-step demonstrations walk you through all the techniques necessary to create successful landscape paintings.Landscape Painting Essentials is packed with practical information. You'll make the critical shift from painting what you see to painting as an artist sees. You'll learn to strategically edit shapes, rearrange elements and enhance color. You'll gain a better understanding of what to include in your painting, what to change and what to leave out. Most importantly, you'll gain the skills necessary to turn nature's bounty of inspiration into original, stunning landscape paintings.

A brilliant new manual of practical techniques for the nature and landscape watercolor artistintroductory section provides expert insight and guidance on materials, techniques, and color mixingarranged by terrain location and then by type of feature for quick reference in the field or home studioprovides step-by-step techniques to capture the majesty, charm, or granular detail of a chosen subject: from fallen leaves to glacial mountainslearn how to achieve a greater sense of shape, texture and form in your paintingsfeatures stunning artwork from expert artist, author, and tutor Johannes VloothuisTake a whirlwind grand tour and explore greater range and depth in your art: from the Great Plains of North America to the turbulent seas of the Atlantic.