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title: Landscape Art
description: This subject focuses on depicting natural scenery, such as mountains, valleys, trees, and rivers. Learners will understand how to capture depth, atmospheric perspective, and natural light using various drawing and painting media.
category: arts-design
subcategory: painting
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/landscape-art
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# Landscape Art

This subject focuses on depicting natural scenery, such as mountains, valleys, trees, and rivers. Learners will understand how to capture depth, atmospheric perspective, and natural light using various drawing and painting media.

## Available Resources

4 Books • 1 Courses • 1 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Composition Library

Master advanced composition techniques with Matt Kohr's Composition Library! Learn to create compelling art through proven visual principles.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library/#composition

**Tags:** composition, digital-painting, visual-design, value

## Podcasts

### 1. Plein Air Podcast

**Author:** PleinAir Magazine

PleinAir Magazine publisher Eric Rhoads delves into the world of plein air painting and the outdoor painting movement.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://outdoorpainter.com

**Tags:** plein-air, landscape-painting, oil-painting, artist-interviews

## Books

### 1. Mastering Atmosphere & Mood in Watercolor

**Author:** Joseph Zbukvic

Zbukvic's watercolour clock maps the ratio of water to pigment against paper wetness, giving a vocabulary for controlling timing. Step-by-step demonstrations cover subject selection, value planning, edge manipulation and atmospheric landscape and street scenes.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1929834179?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** watercolor, atmospheric-painting, landscape-painting, value-planning, edge-control

### 2. Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts

**Author:** 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.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0823032205?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, visual-arts

### 3. The Landscape Painter's Workbook

**Author:** Mitchell Albala

Exercise-based follow-up focused on shape, composition and color, analyzing more than eighty paintings by contemporary landscape artists. Working through the studies builds judgment about notan, format, focal placement and color relationships before committing to a finished canvas.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0760371350?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, visual-arts

### 4. Painting Landscapes in Oils

**Author:** James Horton

Six step-by-step oil landscape projects covering canvas preparation, colour and light, then skies, water, trees, hills, seas and the four seasons. Working through them builds a repeatable method for composing and finishing a landscape painting.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844480402?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, visual-arts

## Websites

### 1. artistsnetwork.com/landscapes

ArtistsNetwork.com's Landscapes section provides tutorials, tips, and demonstrations for landscape painting, covering composition, color, and technique across oils, acrylics, watercolors, and other media.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://artistsnetwork.com/landscapes

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, visual-arts

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