Painting Landscapes

Book content include;

• Lighting conditions - master various lighting effects such as sunrise, sunsets, cloudy days, back-lit etc.
• Color - master various color techniques such as warm & cool, mixing perfect greens, color vibrations and more.
• Design & composition - a key to painting successful landscapes is design & composition. This section delivers the goods!

Are you tired of painting mediocre landscapes? Do you lack confidence to create your own original landscape art? Are you frustrated and exhausted with only copying other artist's work?
Then this guide is for you! It's and complete package for developing quality landscape painting fundamentals so that you can start building a stable foundation and stop relying on luck!
Here is a quick look at some of the sections in this book.

Masses - learn how to simplify and reduce complex landscape subjects into abstract masses. The key to making your art interesting to look at, and paint.

Value Hierarchy - Simplifying your abstract masses into and organized value plan will help you guide the viewer through the painting, reduce stiff and cluttered art, plus develop better focal points.

Light & Shadow and The Three Planes - this section covers the importance of dividing what's in light and what's in shadow. And we will teach you the three common planes and the impact light has on each one.

Atmospheric Perspective - There are many layers of atmosphere as you look into the distance. Naturally values and colors are impacted by these veils so it's crucial to understand how to handle this idea in your painting process.

Trees & Sky Holes - Learn the basics of painting trees which is arguably one of the most challenging areas of landscape painting. Discover how to paint sky holes and not have them look cut out and pasted onto your work.

Clouds & Sky - In this section you will learn how linear perspective impacts your clouds. We will teach you the proper value gradation found in many skies. Plus we will take that idea a step further and create a general three color gradation model you can use to compare skies to.