Landscape Painting Essentials with Johannes Vloothuis

Landscape Painting Essentials with Johannes VloothuisBy: Johannes Vloothuis Secrets to Painting Beautiful Landscapes Painting the landscape can be fun and rewarding if you make the right decisions as you paint. Designed for both beginner and experienced artists, this comprehensive guide is packed with expert advice, essential techniques, and key concepts from propular art instructor Johannes Vloothuis to help you capture the grandeur and beauty of nature on canvas. Learn straightforward strategies to

By: Johannes Vloothuis     

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Secrets to Painting Beautiful Landscapes

Painting the landscape can be fun and rewarding--if you make the right decisions as you paint. Designed for both beginner and experienced artists, this comprehensive guide is packed with expert advice, essential techniques, and key concepts from propular art instructor Johannes Vloothuis to help you capture the grandeur and beauty of nature on canvas.

• Learn straightforward strategies to make your paintings more interesting and dramatic, such as simplifying the foreground, composing with abstract shapes and harmonizing colors.
• Discover specific techniques for painting landscape elements including mountains, water, foliage, snow and more.
• 9 step-by-step demonstrations walk you through all the techniques necessary to create successful landscape paintings.

A comprehensive guide to unlocking the beauty of landscape painting, Landscape Painting Essentials is a must-have for artists of all levels. You'll make the critical shift from painting what you see to painting as an artist sees. You'll learn to strategically edit shapes, rearrange elements and enhance color. You'll gain a better understanding of what to include in your painting, what to change and what to leave out. Most importantly, you'll gain the skills necessary to turn nature's bounty of inspiration into original, stunning landscape paintings.