Landscape Painting || Mitchell Albala
This is by no means a book for the beginner, but rather a comprehensive review of landscape painting, for the most part in oils, for the serious student and, as such, it’s to be welcomed.
Most of the book is taken up with a discussion of the process of landscape painting and methods of interpreting different subjects, elements, colours, shapes and lighting patterns. There’s a great deal to read, but it’s punctuated with plenty of illustrations that illuminate the text and never leave you struggling for comprehension. The final section of the book is devoted to a series of demonstration paintings of a good variety of subjects and these are discussed in detail rather than being in the form that could almost be described as painting by numbers.
If you’re a landscape painter and you want a book that takes you as seriously as you take your subject, look no further.
Author: Mitchell Albala, Medium: Oil, Publisher: Watson Guptill, Subject: Landscape