Landscape Painting- The Art of Seeing & Doing

With 307 pages you get more than a few demonstrations of typical step by step as Larry discusses and illustrates how the viewer's eye is to be taken on a journey. He teaches how to see, how to select components to make the ideal composition, issues important to color and value.

Adept at many mediums from oils and acrylics, gouache watercolors and pastels; painting in studio and on location alla prima plein air. Painters of all mediums will benefit, for Larry's crusade is not so much to tout the merits of one medium, but how the eye well trained will find the hand adapting the painter's knowledge to any medium.

The Table of Contents is as follows-

Directing the Viewer’s Eye

Forms of Visual Balance

Negative & Positive Element’s Exercise

Learning to See

Squinting the Eyes

Judging Color Relationships

Making & Using a Valu’ator

Choosing Your Subject

Unifying- Pulling it All Together

Color Notes & Rhythm

Power of Lines

Getting to Know Yourself (Your Sense of Aesthetics)

Drawing Thumbnails

Making Paint Panels

Palette, Color and Medium

Oil Palette

Copal Medium

Tonalism & Tone Wheel

Acrylic Palette

Limited Palette

Demos- (including oils, acrylic and watercolor)