Paint Glorious Landscapes--Season by Season!
Mother Nature is the greatest artist of all. From the explosion of spring color to autumn's glorious encore, nature is inspiring, artful, and often overwhelming to the novice landscape painter. Tim Deibler is here to help you cut through the chaos, tackle the big challenges, and really hone in on what makes each season special.

In this "Land & Light Workshop," you will find time-tested, practical instruction on how to paint your own unique view of the world. Whether you are a beginning or "seasoned" landscape artist, whether your style leans toward impressionistic or photo-realistic, you'll find lots of fresh ideas and approaches to make your work more captivating.

Four Things to Remember
Everything you want to accomplish in your painting--mood, depth, atmosphere, focal point--boils down to four key elements: shape, value, color and edges. Understanding these essential building blocks will make your painting easier and your results better. Tim shows you how, with clear shapes, a simple value plan, creative color choices and strategic use of edges, you can translate any scene that nature dishes out into a personal and powerful expression. Exercises reinforce each concept while example paintings, along with Tim's clear narration, illustrate lessons learned directly from nature.

Five Great Starts
When you're faced with the abundance of sights and sensations in nature, often the toughest part is simply getting started. Tim demonstrates five easy ways to begin a new painting and when to choose which.

The "Complementary Color Block-In" method, for example, is a perfect solution to winter whites and summer's abundance of greens. By starting with an underpainting of the complementary color, you break up the monotony that can happen with too much of the same thing. By leaving part of the original wash showing through, you create a vitality and sparkle to your work that you can't achieve any other way. The Poetry of the Seasons--Step by Step
In the final chapter, a series of step-by-step demonstrations show you how to apply all the lessons in this book to create paintings that makes your viewer really experience the feeling of "being there."

* The contrasts of spring where new colors emerge from the fading colors of winter.
* The abundance of summer with it's varied supply of greens.
* The brilliance of autumn's glorious color show.
* The magic of winter where warm light and cold shadows spill upon a blanket of white.

Throughout this book, Tim's art takes you from the chill of a winter evening to misty summer mornings, from majestic mountain sunsets to woodland streams. Follow his instruction and set out to explore the myriad artistic possibilities between earth and sky, all ripe for the painting!

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