The Landscape Painter’s Workbook

Written by landscape artist Mitchell Albala.

Essential studies in shape, composition, and colour. Mitchell outlines his approach to the genre in thorough detail.

The book includes 10 exercises, as well as many lessons suitable for all types of paint. The book features over 45 contemporary painters — over 80 paintings in all — each thoroughly analyzed in terms of shape, composition, an color, with supporting diagrams, thumbnails, and photographs.

The book includes:

• The Complete Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color contrast that govern a painting’s color strategy?
• Notan. Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.
• Picture Formats. How does the picture format — horizontal, vertical, or square — affect the composition? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
• Color Grouping. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups.
• Composition. An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example.
• Workshop Exercises. 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.

176 pages.