Secrets to Painting Beautiful Landscapes

Painting the landscape can be fun and rewarding--if you make the right decisions as you paint. After all, it is the artist's greatest challenge to somehow capture a sense of it all--the grandness, the majesty, the splendor of nature--with just a few strokes of paint on a canvas. Popular art instructor Johannes Vloothuis makes the process a whole lot easier with the essential techniques, key concepts and expert advice he shares in this book.

• Learn straightforward strategies to make your paintings more interesting and dramatic, such as simplifying the foreground, composing with abstract shapes and harmonizing colors.
• Discover speci?c techniques for painting landscape elements including mountains, water, foliage, snow and more.
• 9 step-by-step demonstrations walk you through all the techniques necessary to create successful landscape paintings.

Landscape Painting Essentials is packed with practical information. You'll make the critical shift from painting what you see to painting as an artist sees. You'll learn to strategically edit shapes, rearrange elements and enhance color. You'll gain a better understanding of what to include in your painting, what to change and what to leave out. Most importantly, you'll gain the skills necessary to turn nature's bounty of inspiration into original, stunning landscape paintings.

About the Author
Johannes Vloothuis has exhibited his work all over the world including Saint Petersburg, Sao Paolo and The National Watercolor Museum in Mexico City. Currently Johannes travels North America leading painting workshops covering a variety of topics. Johannes has also taught thousands of artists of all skill levels via his online courses. He is a popular contributor to WetCanvas.com and a columnist in The Artist's Magazine and on Artistsnetwork.com.


Book Information
ISBN 9781440336270
Author Johannes Vloothuis
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint North Light Books
Publisher F&W Publications Inc