The Landscape Painter’s Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honoured 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 colour strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics, including:
The Complete Colour Strategy
Picture Formats.
Colour Grouping
Composition
With examples of work by 45 contemporary landscape painters — more than 80 paintings in all — in oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolour, the lessons are suitable for all mediums. Each painting is thoroughly analysed in terms of shape, composition, or colour, 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.
Author: Mitchell Albala
Paperback
176 pages
21.5 x 27.9 cm
