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Landscape Painter's Workbook
Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
242 kr
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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:The Complete Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting’s strategy?Notan. Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.Picture Formats. How does the picture format—horizontal, vertical, or square—affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?Color Grouping. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups.Composition. An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example.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.
New Lessons in Landscape Painting
Key Concepts and Exercises in Color and Composition - By the author of The Landscape Painter's Workbook
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
213 kr
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Refine and expand your landscape painting skills with this next-level guide by award-winning painter and bestselling author Mitchell Albala.New Lessons in Landscape Painting builds on the success of the bestselling The Landscape Painter’s Workbook, with new topics, step-by-step exercises, demonstrations, and in-depth painting analyses. Each is designed to build stronger skills in the core practices of landscape painting: shape interpretation, composition, and color.Alongside inspiring contemporary artwork from an array of talented artists, this indispensable reference offers intermediate and advanced skill-building lessons that apply to both plein air and studio painting. You'll learn practical strategies to improve your creative decision-making and problem-solving skills, regardless of your chosen style. Inside, you’ll find:Comprehensive lessons on color temperature, color dominance, composition, notan, edge work, abstraction, depth, and the spatial properties of colorStep-by-step, practical exercises designed to build skills you can directly apply to solving problems in your own paintingsKey concept primers that explain the theory behind each techniqueOver 100 paintings from more than 50 of today’s most respected landscape artists working in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylicIf you're ready to move beyond the basics, New Lessons in Landscape Painting is the ideal technical resource and creative companion for your journey--inspiring you to explore new practices that will help you create more successful landscape paintings.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.Also available from the series: Drawing the Head for Artists, Essential Human Anatomy for Artists, Facial Expressions for Artists, Figure Drawing for Artists, Life Drawing for Artists, Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists, Dynamic Still Life for Artists, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists, Plein Air Techniques for Artists, Light and Color in the Watercolor Landscape, and Sketching Techniques for Artists.