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Landscape Painter's Workbook

Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color

Mitchell Albala

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The Landscape Painter's Workbook is a hands-on guide to the time-honoured techniques and essential elements of landscape painting.

Written a celebrated landscape artist, 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 lessons, practical exercises and special topics, including:

The Complete Colour Strategy What are the three aspects of colour contrast that guide a painting's strategy?
Picture Formats How does the picture format – horizontal, vertical or square – affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?
Colour Grouping A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colours 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 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 watercolour, the lessons are suitable for all mediums. Each painting is thoroughly analyzed in terms of shape, composition or colour, with supporting diagrams, thumbnails and photographs.