Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting 9780486229270, 0486229270, 9780486209425, 0486209423, 9780806950181, 0806950188

Introduces the mechanics of painting by analyzing the guiding principles and techniques.;How to approach painting -- The

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English Pages 144 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm Year 1973;1958

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Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
 9780486229270, 0486229270, 9780486209425, 0486209423, 9780806950181, 0806950188

Table of contents :
How to approach painting --
The mechanics of painting --
Angles and consequent values --
Design, a pattern of differing values --
Light, unity of tone and the meeting of edges --
Aerial perspective, transitions in value and color --
Linear perspective --
Color, its emotional value in painting --
Trees, how to understand them --
Clouds, how they float --
Composition, the expressive properties of line and mass --
The main line and theme --
The extraordinary and bizarre --
Painting from memory.

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