Instead of demonstrations that show how the author paints, The Landscape Painter's Workbook includes 10 skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential lessons on your own. An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups. How does the picture format-horizontal, vertical, or square-affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?

Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting's strategy? 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: His popular painting blog was awarded the #12 spot on ’s Top 75 Painting Blogs.The Landscape Painter's Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting. In 2016 Mitchell’s work was profiled in the French arts magazine, Practique des Arts. He led painting adventures in Italy in 20, and will be headed to France in 2020 with Winslow Art Center. He has lectured on Impressionism and landscape painting at the Seattle Art Museum and written for International Artist and Artists & Illustrators magazines.

Mitchell is also a dedicated workshop instructor at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Pacific NW Art School, Dakota Art, and Daniel Smith Artist’s Materials. His book, “ Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice” (Watson Guptill/Random House, 2009) with over 40,000 copies in print, is the best selling landscape painting book in the nation. Mitchell Albala’s semi-abstract and atmospheric landscape have been exhibited nationally and in Seattle at Lisa Harris Gallery.

Landscape painter, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala

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