New topics, new lessons, and 10 workshop exercises. Drills down more deeply into topics of shape interpretation, composition, and color. The best-selling book on landscape painting at Amazon, with 30,000 copies sold in just a year-and-a-half. The Landscape Painter’s Workbook beautifully complements the first book, Landscape Painting. You’ll find different content and lessons in each.
The “new classic” of landscape — a broad overview of landscape painting basics and techniques. A best-seller for over 10 years, with 60,000 copies in print.
- 10 skill-building exercises that show you how to work through essential lessons on your own.
- A comprehensive introduction to the “complete” color strategy
- Color grouping, a special practice that helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of color families
- A full chapter on contemporary notan, which positions it as a shape- and pattern-defining tool, rather than a value study
- An in-depth review of compositional variation, movement, and active negative space
- Horizontal, vertical and square formats in depth: the advantages and disadvantages of each
- Lessons are universal and therefore suitable for all oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor painters
- 47 contemporary painters, over 80 paintings in all
- A full chapter on materials
- Covers the entire painting process, from preparatory work to underpainting to development
- Plein air and studio painting demonstrations
- Explores the similarities and differences between studio painting and plein air painting
- A full chapter on site selection, the critical first step in composition
- A comprehensive, step-by-step review of underpainting
- Chapters on working with photos, abstracting nature, inspiration and lifelong learning
- 35 contemporary and classic oil paintings, over 65 paintings in all