Landscape Painting in Oil

by Wendon Blake

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0273001221
• ISBN13: 9780273001225
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

introduction to landscape painting

The is a great starter book for would be landscape artists. The author presents the beginner with all the information he/she will need to get started. Including what to buy, the basics of colour and additives, how to analyze light, shadow, colour, perspective, shapes, planning the picture and painting technique. There are demonstrations of how to paint forms of the land, trees, water, snow and ice, skies, weather, manmade structures and figures in the landscape. Top this all off with step-by-step full colour demonstrations by George Cherepov, a master of the direct oil painting method. Using this book as their guide most everyone will be able to paint their first beautiful landscape.