Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques For Plein Air and Studio Practice
- ISBN-10
- 0823032205
- ISBN-13
- 9780823032204
- Series
- Landscape Painting
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Watson-Guptill
- Author
- Mitchell Albala
Description
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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- 2011-11-15
- 192 pages
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