Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice

Author: Albala, MitchellBrand: Watson-GuptillColor: MulticolorEdition: 1Features: MITCHELL ALBALA hardback Watson-Guptill Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts Plein Air Binding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 192Release Date: 17-11-2009Part Number: RAX-30322Details: Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur, complexity, and color dynamics into convincing representations of space and light. Concise, practical, and inspirational, Landscape Painting focuses on the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, such as: • Simplification and Massing: Learn to reduce nature's complexity by looking beneath the surface of a subject to discover the form's basic masses and shapes.• Color and Light: Explore color the