Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts
by Mitchell Albala · Mitchell Albala
Studio and plein air instruction organized around massing, simplification, composition and color temperature rather than step-by-step demonstrations. Readers learn to reduce a complex outdoor scene to a small number of readable shapes and values.
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