Painter's Quick Reference - Landscapes [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Painter's Quick Reference | Publication Date: May 26, 2006

This latest addition to the popular "Painter's Quick Reference" series tackles a perennially favourite subject matter - landscapes. With instruction for acrylic, watercolour and oil painters, this guide: gives readers countless ideas for gorgeous landscape elements, from the perfect tree and shrubs to clouds, skies, hills, mountains, flowers, water and more; offers quick success through more than 40 easy demonstrations - only four-to-twelve steps each; and features inspiring examples and variations from such top artists as Claudia Nice, Lian Zhen, Kerry Trout and Hugh Greer. With ideas for different seasons, times of day and weather conditions, this fun, flippable book is the perfect creative boost for any landscape artist!

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (May 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581808143
• ISBN-13: 978-1581808148
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #964,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gordon MacKenzie is the author of North Light's bestselling watercolour book, The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook. He has been a popular artist and teacher for more than 30 years and has mounted more than 25 solo exhibitions. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections and has been featured in magazines.

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars painters quick reference landscapes, October 7, 2007

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wendis (redding, ca United States) - See all my reviews

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I bought this book to help me learn how to paint clouds. The book advertised that it would help me turn my fluffy cotton balls into clouds. It didn't. I was very dissapointed with the quality of the paintings done by the demonstrators. I wanted a classical look, not something that looked like a graphic.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A few bright lights, but not many in this book, October 6, 2009

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This review is from: Painter's Quick Reference - Landscapes (Paperback)

Another isn the painter's quick reference series, and another of North Lights multi-authored books. Overall, it's not a great book, but there are some good chapters. This book is a step above North Light's very-forgetable Trees and Foliage, but it still suffers from some of the same failings. There are a few fine demonstrations that are worth reading by the novice painter. Claudia Nice clearly presents an approach for believable underwater stones. Mary Anderson's sea grasses are quite believable. Terrence Tseh outlines an easy approach to thunderheads. Hugh Green has an interesting, if a bit quaint, approach to a distant landscape. There are also several interesting landscapes done in watercolors, and a few more ideas for acrylics. All in all, there are several good demonstrations peppered through this book, and perhap enough of them to compensate for other chapters that leave much to be desired. Not sure that I'd have bought it if I'd had a chance to look through it first, but I'll keep it on my shelf for a while.