MITCHELL ALBALA, LANDSCAPE PAINTING: ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR PLEIN AIR AND STUDIO PRACTICE

Start: 05/16/2010 4:00 pm

Location:

Street:: Village Books
Additional:: 1200 Eleventh Street
City:: Bellingham
Province:: Washington
Postal Code:: 98225
Country:: United States

INCLUDES SLIDE SHOW!

This comprehensive guide offers a genre-specific approach focusing on the greatest challenges facing the landscape painter: simplification and massing, selection and composition, and color and light. The book is illustrated with over 40 contemporary and classic paintings, plus diagrams, photographs, and step-by-step demonstrations. Beautifully written, practical, and inspirational, it is a serious companion for anyone getting started in the genre, as well as instructors or more experienced painters who want to explore new approaches.

Mitchell Albala teaches landscape painting at Gage Academy in Seattle. A respected teaching artist for more than 25 years, he has also lectured at the Seattle Art Museum and written for American Artist. He hosts an educational website and is represented by Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle.