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The Landscape Painter's Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color (6) (For Artists)

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The Landscape Painter’s Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting.

Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying time-tested color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics, including:

  • The Complete Color Strategy. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting’s strategy?
  • Notan. Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition.
  • Picture Formats. How does the picture format—horizontal, vertical, or square—affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each?
  • Color Grouping. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups.
  • Composition. An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example.
  • Workshop Exercises. Instead of demonstrations that show how the author paints, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook includes 10 skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential lessons on your own.

With examples of work by 45 contemporary landscape painters—more than 80 paintings in all—​in oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolor, the lessons are suitable for all mediums. Each painting is thoroughly analyzed in terms of shape, composition, or color, with supporting diagrams, thumbnails, and photographs.

The Landscape Painter’s Workbook inspires and informs all artists, from aspiring to accomplished, on how to successfully portray the majesty and subtlety of the natural world.


The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.

Review

“It encapsulates everything I want to get across to my students in my workshops…This book explains everything.” ― Charlie Hunter, painter and host of Reasonably Fine Art Talk

“This rich and informative new guide is particularly strong on color and composition, offering detailed diagrams and simple strategies for getting the most out of your palette.”  ― Artists & Illustrators Magazine

“Mitchell’s new book is like opening a beautiful travel guide to exotic destinations—there’s so much to explore: shapes, composition, color, and more. The Landscape Painter’s Workbook will no doubt become my comfortably worn and dog-eared ‘road-atlas’ by my side as I explore the wondrous world of landscape painting.” ― Carol Olson, host of The Artful Painter Podcast

"Helps artists, from beginners to experienced, apply the lessons and build their skills." ― Artists Magazine

“Mitchell writes very well, so well in fact that this new book transcends genre, making it useful to all artists, not just landscape painters. I work in still life, yet am finding these exercises enormously helpful. Bravo!” ― Margaret Davidson, author of Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques

“Has great focus and organization. It discusses topics in depth that are often glossed over, if mentioned at all.”  ― Steve Whitney, painter and instructor

"Mitchell has a lot of respect for his readers. It's not easy to explain what goes through one's mind when you're painting, but he puts into words some very complex ideas and says them so clearly.” ― Sue Charles, painter

“I had thought you covered just about everything in your first book, but The Landscape Painter’s Workbook takes it to another level.” ― Bill Hook, painter

“Your ability to dissect a painting and clearly describe its important qualities makes the book a valuable asset for any serious student, as well as experienced painters alike.” ― Bill Vrscak, painter

From the Back Cover

The Landscape Painter's Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting.

Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying time-tested color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics.

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4.9 out of 5

98.46% of customers are satisfied

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book not just for painters but for photographers

S.M. · 20 August 2024

I really loved this book. It looks like a coffee table book in terms of beauty but it's full of useful information on composition and colour that is just as helpful for (amateur) photographers such as myself as it must be for budding painters. Mitchell Albala is an accessible writer too and so the whole thing makes sense. while being an easy read.This all isn't too surprising because painters are about over a thousand years ahead of photographers in terms of studying what works in landscapes. So I plan on absorbing all the knowledge and then running to my camera to click away productively to my heart's content.So I now have lots of ideas on how to improve my photos using linear perspective, variation and movement while not making a blunder when changing my colours around in Photoshop. What Mitchell Albala calls "limited focus and the picture window" the photographers amongst us would call "cropping". Best of all I now have lots of ideas on how to make bland skies interesting without resorted to massively increasing the contrast on the clouds - a Lightroom/Photoshop trick that isn't often convincing.I also thoroughly recommend Mitchell Albala's other book - Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice. (I bought it with some book tokens and so couldn't use Bolo or leave an Bolo review for it.) Landscape Painting is a bit more detailed but equally fantastic for photographers. I would give that five stars too.

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I had this book as a student

l. · 23 March 2023

I bought this for my students, but I am loving it myself. Beautiful rendered photographs of paintings alongside clear and simple but insightful explanations of deep and complex concept.The feel of the book is also nice as the soft cover has a soft lamination, size is about A4, good enough to appreciate the content in my opinion.Very up to date with contemporary concepts like Instagram square crops, which is mentioned when the author explains we have to give a reason for a certain crop.My favourite part was the chapter about -notan, as Mitchell explains is not so much a value study, but a study of shape and pattern which happens to use 2 values as tools.Definitely recommend, even for experienced painters and who wants to understand more about colour and design.I didn’t know Mitchell’s art before. That is also a fascinating journey through colour and light, with a tendency to Abstraction which I love , because it shows to students the possibilities of landscape painting.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overall; minor quibbles in the section on Palette Strategies

K.H.G. · 20 September 2022

I work mainly in watercolour and I have found this book very helpful on the subject of composition, especially on shape interpretation and NOTAN. Liberal NOTAN is a new concept to me and will definitely help me apply NOTAN successfully as a design aid, which I have previously struggled with.I haven't worked through the section on Colour Strategies but it looks like it will enhance my practice in this area.I was surprised however that a capable practioner and teacher like the author would categorise Ultramarine Blue as a cool blue and Phthalo, Cerulean, Manganese, and Teal as warm blues. This is repeated on pages 149, 158, 159, 160 and 161, so doesn't seem to be an editorial or proof reader introduced error. This doesn't seem to be a prevalent view among other artists.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book

T.M. · 17 December 2024

Still working through it, but it is really interesting and useful.

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable for all landscape artists.

J.P. · 10 February 2022

This took a long time coming on pre-order but the wait was more than worth it.The book itself is beautiful with many lovely examples that illustrate the teaching perfectly. Some have suggested that it would be more suited to intermediate or advanced painters. I would beg to differ and having now read the book completely feel that it would not only help form a solid foundational framework of ideas and concepts for beginners but would also be helpful to all landscape artists whether working in wet or dry media. Even much of the colour related teaching could be translated to other media such as pastels and coloured pencils. As the author indicates from the outset this book is intended to have a much broader focus than his first one on oil painting (which I haven't read).There were a lot of "aha" moments for me reading this book but I agree with the author that greatest progress will come through making the time and effort to complete the exercises (which are more enjoyable than onerous). I would also add that while some may not like the non- glossy pages for those who prefer to make notes and marks on the pages of their book, the paper used is perfect for that. I suppose it is a workbook after all.This will undoubtedly be a well thumbed reference book for years to come.

5.0 out of 5 stars great source of information.

P. · 7 August 2024

There’s so much covered here and all the reference pictures are wonderful. Look forward to dipping into this book again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book

O. · 17 September 2024

Bought as a present - recipient delighted!

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative intetesting book

S. · 14 October 2024

Would recommend this book. Quality paper and printing. A must for any artist learning landscapes.

Livro de paisagem

C.A. · 12 January 2025

Gostei, ótimo material e bom conteúdo.

Great!

S. · 17 January 2025

I really like this book. Easy to read, lots of practical information, and exercises. I like this author. For landscape artists working in any medium.

Exercises! Quality examples!

P. · 23 June 2023

I was raised by a skilled artist, but I was not taught painting as a kid. I've taken a couple classes at jr colleges, and I could do better than I do. I know it's lack of actually practicing that is to blame, but I want to work at it and need something that's not more of the same. Enter this book. The author is both a skilled artist and a skilled educator, a rare combo.After reading the first chapter (tonal values, massing) I saw the world differently and was practicing looking around me to see this in real life.Here's the rub: if you're looking for something to help you as an absolute beginner starting out totally from scratch, this book will challenge you because it isn't holding your hand on the most basic stuff. They're providing examples in various mediums and the very first exercise will ask you to do something much more interesting than shading a cube (a common beginner exercise).I hope others experience what I'm enjoying which is that this is a thoughtful, beautiful presentation with sophisticated examples that will challenge your brain to do things differently. Highly recommended for those with ambition and an adventurous attitude, but not a ton of experience. .... and if you've got more experience, use this for inspiration and some pretty great prompts. These exercises / examples as they build through the book could be skill refining prompts where you are reminded of stuff like notan, a bunch of color and palette strategies, movement, active negative space, and so on.

The best landscape painting book !!!!

C.G. · 26 March 2022

The best Landscape Painting book I have read … is an excelent complement with the first One done by the author

Lots to learn

a.s.b. · 14 September 2024

The book has exercises at the end of each chapter. These are very useful. The book is well written and easy to comprehend. Love the approach of teaching.

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