Landscapes: Learn to Paint a Collection of Beautiful Scenes - Step by Step

Hampton, Anita/ Obermeyer, Michael/ Short, Kevin/ Swimm, Tom

ISBN 10: 1600582222 / ISBN 13: 9781600582226

Published by Walter Foster Pub, 2011

About this Item

32 pages. 13.50x9.00x0.40 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landscapes: Learn to Paint a Collection of Beautiful Scenes - Step by Step
• Publisher: Walter Foster Pub
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600582222
• ISBN 13: 9781600582226
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.23 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

In this title, William Alexander invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to re-create a variety of beautiful landscapes in oil. After exploring tools and materials, he explores tips for various oil painting techniques as well as instructions for how to create special effects for landscape elements such as skies, trees, mountains, roads, clouds, and lakes. Following demonstrations that show how to develop an oil painting into a finished work of art using the unique Alexander Wet-on-Wet Technique, aspiring artists will discover how to create a beautiful finished painting in just one sitting. Best of all, you will find a wealth of beautiful landscape paintings to copy and admire!

About the Author

Anita Hampton's (Arizona) work is featured in exhibitions across the U.S. and Europe. She teaches workshops at the Scottsdale Art School in Arizona.

Michael Obermeyer's (Laguna Beach, CA) paintings are on display at the Smithsonian Institute, U.S. Air Force Historical Art Collection, and the Pentagon.

Kevin Short (Capistrano Beach, CA) studied painting at the University of New Mexico and Pepperdine University at Malibu.

Tom Swimm has felt an instinctive need to paint since his early childhood. Although he is self-taught, he has long been inspired by the work of Van Gogh, Monet, and Hopper, and he considers these masters his teachers. Tom's first one-man exhibition was at the Pacific Edge Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. His work has also been displayed in several other California galleries, at ArtExpo New York, and at the APPAF Exhibition in Paris, France. His paintings have also appeared on the cover of Skyward Marketing's in-flight magazine in 2001, as well as on the cover of Artist's Magazine in 1992. And Tom's work is currently featured in several Walter Foster Publishing titles