Oil & Acrylic: Landscapes: Learn to paint a collection of beautiful scenes-step by step

by William Alexander, Michael Obermeyer, Kevin Short

In this title, William Alexander invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to re-create a variety of beautiful landscapes in oil. After exploring tools and materials, he explores tips for various oil painting techniques as well as instructions for how to create special effects for landscape elements such as skies, trees, mountains, roads, clouds, and lakes. Following demonstrations that show how to develop an oil painting into a finished work of art using the unique Alexander Wet-on-Wet Technique, aspiring artists will discover how to create a beautiful finished painting in just one sitting. Best of all, you will find a wealth of beautiful landscape paintings to copy and admire!

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

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Reviews

[Book Nibbler]

The color palettes are helpful as well as the photos that breakdown each step. Each painting tutorial is about two pages long.

[Fredrick Danysh]

This concise guide to painting landscapes illustrate basic steps and procedures providing examples and color lists.