The LANDSCAPES
The LANDSCAPES

Author: Richard Schmid

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780977829699

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HE LANDSCAPES, ENHANCED EDITION by American Artist Richard Schmid. A large full color book of the landscape paintings of the American Artist Richard Schmid with text by Richard Schmid. 268 pages. Over 300 full color images. This book covers the career of Richard Schmid's seventy years as a painter of landscapes. This is the visual tale of an artist and his lifelong romance with the colors and light of our earth. Richard reveals what it is like to go out and capture life as it is happening, in addition, stories about the adventures of painting outdoors from life throughout the United States and many other countries. This Enhanced Edition represents the very latest advances in printing color images. Over a dozen new small drawings. and over 100 new captions written by Richard Schmid have been added as well.

The LANDSCAPES
The LANDSCAPES

Author: Richard Schmid

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780977829637

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THE LANDSCAPES, ENHANCED EDITION by American Artist Richard Schmid. This large format book of Richard Schmid¿s sixty-five years as a landscape painter, with over 300 color images, has been color enhanced using the latest state of the art printing technology, and further enriched with added text and many new original drawings in the margins.This is the visual tale of an artist and his life-long romance with the colors and light of our earth. With delightfully candid narrative and over 300 full color images, Richard reveals what it is like to go out and capture life as it is happening. The reader will discover how landscape painting is unlike any other form of art; and that artistic skill is only one of the many abilities demanded.

Alla Prima II Companion
Alla Prima II Companion

Author: Katie Swatland

Publisher:

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 9780977829613

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Alla Prima II Companion is a comprehensive guide outlining Richard Schmid's material, tool and techniques written from the perspective of his student Katie Swatland. The book offers full explanations of all painting preparations, with step-by-step images illustrating each process. Both Katie Swatland and Richard Schmid offer painting demonstrations with sequential images showing the developmental stages of Richard's paintings.

Landscape Painting
Landscape Painting

Author: Mitchell Albala

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0823008347

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Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur, complexity, and color dynamics into convincing representations of space and light. Concise, practical, and inspirational, Landscape Painting focuses on the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, such as: • Simplification and Massing: Learn to reduce nature's complexity by looking beneath the surface of a subject to discover the form's basic masses and shapes.• Color and Light: Explore color theory as it specifically applies to the landscape, and learn the various strategies painters use to capture the illusion of natural light.• Selection and Composition: Learn to select wisely from nature's vast panorama. Albala shows you the essential cues to look for and how to find the most promising subject from a world of possibilities. The lessons in Landscape Painting—based on observation rather than imitation and applicable to both plein air and studio practice—are accompanied by painting examples, demonstrations, photographs, and diagrams. Illustrations draw from the work of more than 40 contemporary artists and such masters of landscape painting as John Constable, Sanford Gifford, and Claude Monet. Based on Albala's 25 years of experience and the proven methods taught at his successful plein air workshops, this in-depth guide to all aspects of landscape painting is a must-have for anyone getting started in the genre, as well as more experienced practitioners who want to hone their skills or learn new perspectives.

Alla Prima
Alla Prima

Author: Al Gury

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0823098346

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Alla Prima is a comprehensive guide to direct painting, characterised by bold, expressive brushwork and a painterly, atmospheric surface. It covers the history of the direct methods in both Europe and America. From there, it includes detailed step-by-step lessons and discussions on drawing structure, broken and smooth brushwork, and colour development.

Portrait Painting Atelier
Portrait Painting Atelier

Author: Suzanne Brooker

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0823008355

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The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in the old ways in this country and throughout the world. Coming out of this dedicated movement, Portrait Painting Atelier is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old Masters’ technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more densely painted lights. This method unifies the entire painting, creating a beautiful glow that illuminates skin tones and softly blends all the color tones. Readers will also find valuable instruction in paint mediums from classic oil-based to alkyd-based, the interactive principles of composition and photograph-based composition, and the anatomy of the human face and the key relationships among its features. Richly illustrated with the work of preeminent masters such as Millet, Géricault, and van Gogh, as well as some of today’s leading portrait artists—and featuring seven detailed step-by-step portrait demonstrations—Portrait Painting Atelier is the first book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and techniques of traditional portraiture.

Oil Painting
Oil Painting

Author: Ted Goerschner

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781626548558

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One of the best things about attending a workshop led by a skilled instructor is that you're a better artist by the end of the week. Don't expect anything less from this workshop-in-print. If you want to learn how to capture your subjects in an expressive and colorful style, this book is the next best thing to attending a Ted Goerschner workshop. Get the workshop experience in the comfort of your own studio, at whatever pace that is right for you Day 1: Ted shares his secrets to obtaining fresh, bright color Day 2: Find out how to build a perfect scene Day 3: Ted shows you how to choose and focus on a subject while painting in nature Day 4: Discover a simple five-step approach that works for every painting Day 5: As every artist has difficult days, learn how open-minded perseverance can lead to a successful painting Day 6: Ted demonstrates how to add life to your landscapes and put people in your paintings Day 7: Ted shows how to incorporate design techniques to make your art more exciting Ted also performs a dozen of his famous paint-on demos, in which he actually paints on top of a student's work to correct problems that virtually every student struggles with. By the end of the workshop, you'll be loosened up and creating paintings filled with light, color, and great juicy brushstrokes. So what are you waiting for? You don't want to be late for your first day Ted Goerschner (1933-2013) was inspired by his grandfather's success as a sculptor and painter and knew by the age of six that he wanted to be an artist. Goerschner attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, and after serving two years in the Korean War, he studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City. His career finally took off when Charles Movalli wrote an article on him in American Artist in 1977. As an award-winning painter, he has been featured in a number of art periodicals and exhibited at the Art Students League in New York, National Academy of Design in New York, Salamagundi Club in New York, and Rockport Art Association. Lewis Barret Lehrman has been a working artist and writer, in one form or other, for all his working life. He is the author of a number of books on art, including Being an Artist, Energize Your Paintings With Color, Freshen Your Paintings with New Ideas, Capturing Light in Watercolor, and Harley Brown's Eternal Truths For Every Artist. A New York native, Lehrman currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Lola. For more information on this artist, visit his website: www.lewisblehrman.com.