Dramatic Color in the Landscape: Painting Land and Light in Oil and Pastel
Dramatic Color in the Landscape: Painting Land and Light in Oil and Pastel
Dramatic Color in the Landscape will help you to discover ways to enliven your paintings with the brilliant color of your favorite seasons while exploring simple yet effective color concepts and ideas evident in everyday and dramatic lighting situations.
Alongside award-winning artist Brian Keeler, learn to continually evolve and improve upon your landscape compositions, step by step, with countless tips and techniques designed to help you express your interpretation of any given scene.
Inside you'll find:
- A simplified approach to painting complex color at all times of day in a wide variety of settings.
- 10 detailed, step-by-step oil and pastel demonstrations to help improve your landscapes.
- An abundance of advice on painting land, water, skies, nature, man-made structures, shadows and all types of light, plus essential perspective concepts for creating realistic imagery.
- Dozens of YouTube video links are included to allow the reader to see the artist at work, with in-depth explanations with these demonstrations.
Discover fresh ideas and techniques for expanding your color vocabulary, while painting light with structured approaches to composition. Sun-drenched landscapes, poetic nocturnes and genre scenes with figures are all covered in this 146-page book of inspirations.
Color is the most expressive tool that artists have in their toolbox. Learn to master it with Dramatic Color in the Landscape.