The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, aerial and linear perspective, painting of trees, emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, plus information on canvas, palette, brushes, more. 34 black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Carlson. 58 explanatory diagrams.
The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, aerial and linear perspective, painting of trees, emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, plus information on canvas, palette, brushes, more. 34 black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Carlson. 58 explanatory diagrams.
1. How to Approach Painting 2. The Mechanics of Painting 3. Angles and Consequent Values 4. Design-A Pattern of Differing Values 5. Light-Unity of Tone and the Meeting of Edges 6. Aerial Perspective-Transitions in Value and Color 7. Linear Perspective 8. Color-Its Emotional Value in Painting 9. Trees-How to Understand Them 10. Clouds-How They Float 11. Composition-The Expressive Properties of Line and Mass 12. The Main Line and Theme 13. The Extraordinary and Bizarre 14. Painting from Memory Index
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