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by John F. Carlson
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ISBN: 0486229270 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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The whys and hows of the various aspects of landscape painting: angles and consequent values, aerial and linear perspective, painting of trees, emotional properties of line and mass in composition, light, unity of tone, plus information on canvas, palette, brushes, more. 34 black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Carlson. 58 explanatory diagrams.
Table of Contents for Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting
| 1. How to Approach Painting | |||||||
| 2. The Mechanics of Painting | |||||||
| 3. Angles and Consequent Values | |||||||
| 4. Design-A Pattern of Differing Values | |||||||
| 5. Light-Unity of Tone and the Meeting of Edges | |||||||
| 6. Aerial Perspective-Transitions in Value and Color | |||||||
| 7. Linear Perspective | |||||||
| 8. Color-Its Emotional Value in Painting | |||||||
| 9. Trees-How to Understand Them | |||||||
| 10. Clouds-How They Float | |||||||
| 11. Composition-The Expressive Properties of Line and Mass | |||||||
| 12. The Main Line and Theme | |||||||
| 13. The Extraordinary and Bizarre | |||||||
| 14. Painting from Memory | |||||||
| Index |