The Landscape Painter's Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color (Volume 6)

This is a must read book for any artist, especially for landscape artists. Easy to read, great examples, and good exercise.

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the best forever

bastante completo, incluye varios ejercicios para practicar lo aprendido, explicaciones claras y texto conciso.

This is an exceptional workbook for any landscape artist. I've been working my way through it for a few months and am incredibly impressed with the quality and content. The book is beautifully constructed with wonderful illustrations, including both helpful instructional diagrams and stunning examples from master artists. The author has created ten useful exercises that offer practical, detailed guidance on key concepts like the harmony of neutrals, picture formats, and movement. What truly sets this book apart is the author's extensive knowledge from years of leading workshops. They share invaluable insights on how to problem-solve your paintings and, crucially, how to identify what to look for in a subject. This wisdom can take your work to the next level. Usually, I'm happy to get one or two useful things from an art book, but this one is packed with substantive lessons I'm excited to incorporate into my own practice. A huge thank you to the author for creating such a valuable resource for fellow artists.

Excellent book that even an experienced painter would find useful! My mother in law couldn't have been more pleased with it and gained lots of hints and tricks from this books. She is an excellent artist and very hard to buy for! She has since bought this book for her friends so it must be good!

There are dozens of books about landscape painting . As a longtime teacher and practitioner of this art, I own nearly all of them. Most are so similar in approach and content that buying one would be sufficient for most of us. To broaden the market, such books all tend to assume that readers know little about the subject and therefore attempt to cover everything from choosing brushes and color to creating finished masterpieces. Mitchell Albala’s first book, Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plain Air and Studio Practice, now a classic of the genre, covers this same terrain, but also provides excellent, detailed guidance on as composition, simplifying nature, abstracting the landscape, and working with light and color. Albala’s recent book, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color, provides practical instruction for applying these fundamental topics to one’s own work, through concise discussions, abundant illustrations, and excellent hands-on exercises. In other words, this is a true workbook. Beginning students could advance rapidly simply by applying themselves to the exercises. Experienced artists such as myself can draw upon Albala’s presentation and exercises to sharpen and refine our own presentation in classes and workshops. But it is serious intermediate artists, who already know but have not mastered the basics, who can benefit most from this workbook. It addresses their most troubling artistic problems and provides a way out of the confusion and frustration that plagues the struggling painter. Beyond that, Albala’s new book encourages and inspires all readers to step our of our comfort zones and try strategies in composition, value, and color that perhaps could lead our work in new, inspired directions.

Incrível. Não sei como esse livro não é mais comentando e recomendado na internet. Explora todos os principais conceitos da pintura de paisagens (muitos que também valem para a pintura em geral) de forma muito didática, organizada, e transponível para qualquer mídia: aquarela, guache, tinta a óleo, acrílica, pasteis ou até mesmo digital! Como o livro propõe uma espécie de "currículo", com exercícios sugeridos a cada capítulo, alguém que tem noções básicas de pintura pode tranquilamente aprender a pintar paisagens exclusivamente com base nas lições desse livro. Destaque para as dicas práticas que aparecem ao longo do livro, e que podem te ajudar muito com temas que vão desde a organização dos deus materiais e a escolha da paleta até ao seu processo pessoal de pintura.