Landscape Painting Step-by-Step

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Landscape Painting
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Here is Leonard Richmond's classic, The Art of Landscape Painting, in a revised and enlarged version, with more valuable advice and information than ever.
The bool< opens with a fresh look at landscape painting and its elements, including such offbeat subjects as architecture, ships, trains, automobiles, and industry. Next, the design of a picture is considered, with emphasis on the importance of planning, focusing on dominant subjects, and making subordinate elements interesting. Elementary and advanced compositional exercises help you develop skill in designing with straight lines and curves. You learn how to handle values in simple and complex subjects; how to draw and paint outdoors; how to make detailed studies of such landscape elements as trees, for later use in the studio.
Special chapters show how to catch sky and cloud colors and effects; how to paint hills, mountains, and wooded landscapes; and ways of rendering... Tovább

Fülszöveg

! I' 'i !
, 1 ' '
Landscape Painting
step-by-step
Here is Leonard Richmond's classic, The Art of Landscape Painting, in a revised and enlarged version, with more valuable advice and information than ever.
The bool< opens with a fresh look at landscape painting and its elements, including such offbeat subjects as architecture, ships, trains, automobiles, and industry. Next, the design of a picture is considered, with emphasis on the importance of planning, focusing on dominant subjects, and making subordinate elements interesting. Elementary and advanced compositional exercises help you develop skill in designing with straight lines and curves. You learn how to handle values in simple and complex subjects; how to draw and paint outdoors; how to make detailed studies of such landscape elements as trees, for later use in the studio.
Special chapters show how to catch sky and cloud colors and effects; how to paint hills, mountains, and wooded landscapes; and ways of rendering water— creating a feeling of transparency, painting water without reflections, and with reflections in light and shadow. Also covered are problems you may encounter in painting buildings and other man-made structures in towns and cities, as well as in presenting boats and shipping scenes.
BY LEONARD RICHMOND
Especially useful is Richmond's advice on painting undulating, or rolling, landscapes, and on interpreting the various moods of nature, ranging from tranquillity to violent storms. How to use outdoor sketches in the studio— and notes on materials and equipment for pastel, oil, and watercolor painting—round out this comprehensive guide.
Step-by-step demonstrations, all in full color, appear throughout the book to illustrate each phase of landscape painting. Landscapes by leading American painters, accompanied by detailed analytical captions, further relate the text to actual practice.
144 pages. 8V2 x 11. 50 full color, 25 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
Contents
CHAPTER 1 : A FRESH LOOK AT LANDSCAPE
CHAPTER 2: THE PLAN OF A PICTURE
CHAPTER 3: ELEMENTARY COMPOSITIONAL EXERCISES
CHAPTER 4; ADVANCED COMPOSITIONAL EXERCISES
CHAPTER 5: VALUES
CHAPTER 6; OUTDOOR SKETCHING
CHAPTER 7: MORE ABOUT OUTDOOR SKETCHING
CHAPTER 8; DETAILED STUDIES IN PENCIL
CHAPTER 9: STUDIES OF CLOUDS
CHAPTER 10: STUDIES OF HILLS AND MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER 11: STUDIES OF TREES
CHAPTER 12: STUDIES OF WATER
CHAPTER 13: STUDIES OF BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 14: STUDIES OF BOATS AND SHIPPING
CHAPTER 15: UNDULATING LANDSCAPES
CHAPTER 16: MOODS OF NATURE
CHAPTER 17: THE USE OF OUTDOOR SKETCHES
CHAPTER 18: VARIOUS MATERIALS
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