Landscape Meditations: An Artist's Guide to Exploring Themes in Landscape Painting

by Elizabeth Mowry

Book Overview

Landscape Meditations examines the process of capturing a sense of place through a series of views of a single landscape subject, like Van Gogh did with sunflowers or Monet did with haystacks and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823026027
• ISBN13: 9780823026029
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great inspiration for artists

This book is full of beautiful paintings and great ideas on painting. Mowry does a great job writing about her inspiration for painting and discusses ways you improve your paintings. A great book for anyone interested in landscape art.

Elizabeth Mowry

Elizabeth Mowry's pastel books are an inspiration, not just for her beautiful artworks but for her choice of poetry and meditations. The colours set the moods and the words give pause for thought. Wonderful books, especially Landscape Meditations.

Elizabeth Mowrey's "Landscape Meditations"

It was my privilege to recently obtain a copy of Elizabeth Mowrey's latest book, "Landscape Meditations." I thorougly enjoyed her two earlier books and eagerly looked forward to receiving this one. I was not disappointed! This is not a "how to" or a "look what I did" book. As in her earlier books, she teaches us more of a philosophical even spiritual approach to artistic expression. To those of us that can't approach her talent, she lets us glimpse how a true artist thinks. I especially appreciated her sense of place in her paintings which to me is akin to the writings of Wendell Berry. Her writing and, of course, her wonderful oil pastels are good for the soul.

Inspiring, magical book!

When you are weary from toiling over your masterpiece, you must grab this book by Elizabeth Mowry, curl up in your favorite spot and just enjoy this wonderful book. The author & artist wants you to get involved with your painting and learn to FEEL what your eyes see, so that what you put on paper is part of yourself. It's your story, your vision of life. Ms. Mowry is a very talented artist who shares with the reader her thoughts & ideas that went into the many beautiful paintings she rendered in pastels & some in oils. The book is so beautifully done, with many, many beautiful landscapes she painted during her travels all over the world and her narrative about her travels and her personal thoughts about the many scenes she painted, that I didn't realize until I got well into the book that she was also giving the reader many valuable lessons in such things as structure of a painting, light source, theme painting, & individualizing one's work. Wow, what a book. It's a joy.

LANDSCAPE MEDITATIONS

This book is so well done I can't do it justice. It is a treasure and valuable reference for any paselist beginner to advanced. Elizabeth Mowry is indeed a Master,her work is breathtaking!!