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Painting Landscapes Filled with Light

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Dorothy Dent's Painting Landscapes Filled With Light provides ten step-by-step projects for both beginners and advanced painters who want to paint light-filled landscapes depicting different seasons and times. Color values are surveyed in landscape projects which show how to capture sunsets and sunrises, autumn foliage, moonshine on water, and more. More than just an exercise book, each project includes diagrams showing light direction and color tonal values and a commentary on how experts fine-tune paintings such professional finishing touches.

I have many how to paint books and Dorothy Dent's are my favorite. This book includes 5 lessons in acrylic and 5 lessons in oils and her step-by-step instructions are very clear and easy to follow. She also includes exact colors to use which would be helpful to the beginner artist. I have recreated all of her pictures with surprising success. She also includes templates you can enlarge to transfer the image to your canvas. I would highly recommend this book and her other acrylic "Realistic Landscapes" step-by-step book.

Another excellent book from Dorothy Dent. From the beginner to the seasoned painter there is something for everyone to learn in this book. Her explanations of light are easy to understand and follow. Recommend highly.

Am a beginner with oil painting so ordered this book (by a recommended author/instructor) to assist in my endeavors. Many great suggestions, pictures to try, examples to benefit from, etc.

This is an excellent book for the beginner/intermediate painter. It shows step by step drawings to paintings with colors to use for each section of the picture. Would recommend this book to anyone who loves to paint.

I purchased this book to increase my painting skills and have found it excellent in defining light and value changes. I have used several exercises in my teaching of acrylics to older adults with great success. Dorothy is a wonderful artist and these fairly simple projects help us understand more abouit the mystery of how to give a painting depth and light.