What
do you want your landscape painting to say about this
place, this moment? How do you use the visual vocabulary
- line, shape, value, color, edges --- to say it?
With this book, your conversation with nature will
direct your brush. With an exhilarating, synergistic
combination of indoor and outdoor painting, Kevin
Macpherson shows you how to create personal, poetic
landscapes that capture the feeling of being there.
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Freeze
the idea, record the moment -
An
art instruction book published by F & W Publishing
Landscape
Painting - Inside & Out
Written
by a consummate painter and experienced workshop instructor,
the masterful instruction in this book is essential,
direct and easy to apply. Emphasizing simplicity of
tools, colors and application, Kevin Macpherson's approach
will free you to focus on expression and creativity.
Learn
how to:
- Use
a limited palette in a way that is more liberating
than limiting.
- Experience
nature to the fullest and capture its vibrancy back
in the studio through photos, sketches and outdoor
studies.
- Control
the fleeting qualities of atmosphere and light by
establishing a value plan early and sticking with
it.
- Incorporate
impressionistic touches of broken color to give your
landscape a depth and vibrancy that enhances its realism.
- Approach
painting as a layering and corrective process that
encourages non-fomulaic solutions.
Stimulation
warm-up exercises in the studio prepare you for your
adventures outside, while eight step-by-step demonstrations
show you how to put these methods into action. Throughout,
Macphersopn's own light-filled landscapes illustrate
the power of these techniques.
This
book will encourage you to let your intuition rule when
you paint outdoors. Step-by-step demonstrations and
stimulating practice exercised in the studio will prepare
you for your adventures outside. Kevin encourages you
to paint both outdoors and inside. Contemplative study
in the solitude of your studio is important to your
development into a highly skilled passionate plein air
painter. A balanced approach in which you work both
indoors and outdoors will foster your growth as an artist
painting with purpose.
The
great painters of the past created thoughtful art in
the studios with no loss of the vitality and spontaneity
we associate with painting outdoors. We will explore
ways to relive the outdoor experience, enlarge our ideas
and refine our compositions.
Discover
the secrets to retaining the vitality, spontaneity and
harmony of painting outdoors, while using your picture-making
skills to create a more thoughtful and powerful statement.
Full
of fresh air and fresh art, Landscape Painting Inside
and Out will guide and encourage beginners while challenging
more accomplished artists to bring greater vitality
and a more natural, less formulaic finish to their paintings.
Chapter
1 - The studio, inside and out
Chapter 2 - Techniques
Chapter 3 - The theory of relativity
Chapter 4 - The planning and painting process
Chapter 5 - Painting outside
Chapter 6 - Painting inside
Chapter 7 - The path to success
Hardcover,
144 pages
Price:
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Reflections
on a pond
A
visual journal by Kevin Macpherson
"The
process of plein air painting elevates my senses and
allows me to appreciate the moment, recording my emotions
through a vocabulary of color. The colorful conversation
that takes place on my canvas is a witness to life."
New
Book release from Kevin Macpherson, "Reflections
on a Pond" not only lives within the series of
paintings themselves but also in the beautiful book.
Over 400 color reproductions, 260 pages that capture
the ever-changing daily and seasonal differences coupled
with the moods and insight of the artist, Kevin Macpherson.
Commentary by the artist and essays by editor Susan
McGarry, Jean Stern, the Director of the Irvine Museum
and art collector Roy Rose, grandnephew of California
Impressionist Guy Rose.
Click
here to view some of the paintings in the book
Hardcover,
260 pages.
Price:
$95 + a flat $10 for shipping and handling.
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