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

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By (author): Mitchell Albala

The Landscape Painters Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting.

Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, 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 color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics, including:

  • The Complete Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a paintings strategy?
  • Notan. Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.
  • Picture Formats. How does the picture formathorizontal, vertical, or squareaffect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?
  • Color Grouping. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors 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. Instead of demonstrations that show how the author paints, The Landscape Painters Workbook includes 10 skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential lessons on your own.

With examples of work by 45 contemporary landscape paintersmore than 80 paintings in allin oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor, the lessons are suitable for all mediums. Each painting is thoroughly analyzed in terms of shape, composition, or color, with supporting diagrams, thumbnails, and photographs.

The Landscape Painters Workbook inspires and informs all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, on how to successfully portray the majesty and subtlety of the natural world.


The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 746g
  • Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780760371350

About Mitchell Albala

Mitchell Albala whose semi-abstract and atmospheric landscapes have been exhibited nationally is the author of two books: The Landscape Painters Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape Composition and Color (Rockport Publishers) and Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice (Watson-Guptill) a leading title on the subject since it was published in 2009. In addition to leading plein air workshops in Italy Albala is also a popular workshop instructor in the Pacific Northwest and has lectured on Impressionism and landscape painting at the Seattle Art Museum. He has written for International Artist and Artists & Illustrators magazines and his work was profiled in the French Arts magazine Practique des Arts. His popular painting blog holds a top spot on feedspot.coms Top 80 Websites & Blogs for Painters. His paintings workshops and blog can be found on his website mitchalbala.com. He lives in Seattle Washington.

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