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

Albala, Mitchell

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ISBN 10: 0823032205 ISBN 13: 9780823032204

Casa editrice: Watson-Guptill, 2009

Riassunto

A book on both studio and en plein air (French for "in the open air") landscape painting focuses on simplification and massing, or simplifying nature's complexity to look beneath for basic masses and shapes; color and metaphor; and composition and design, in a book with 230 illustrations from over 30 notable artists.

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L'autore:

MITCHELL ALBALA teaches landscape painting at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. A respected and dedicated teaching artist for more than 20 years, he is best known for his atmospheric and semiabstract landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. He has lectured on impressionism at the Seattle Art Museum, has written about landscape painting for American Artist magazine, and hosts an educational website at mitchellalbala.com. He has exhibited nationally and is represented by the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle

Product Description:

RANDOM HOUSE-Watson Guptill: Landscape Painting. 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 this book; author 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; the book focuses on the greatest challenges for the landscape artist such as Simplification and Massin; Color and Light; and Selection and Composition. The lessons are accompanied by painting examples; demonstrations; photographs; and diagrams making this in-depth guide to all aspects of landscape painting a must-have for anyone getting started in the genre as well as more experience practitioners. Author: Mitchell Albala. Hardcover; 192 pages. Published 2009. Imported.

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• Editore: Watson-Guptill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0823032205
• ISBN 13: 9780823032204
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192