Secrets to Composition: 14 Formulas for Landscape Painting

by Barbara Nuss

This easy-to-follow guide shows you 14 easy formulas for translating what you see in nature into eye-catching landscape painting compositions. A must-have for landscape painters, not only does it break painting composition down into suggestions that will help you organize your landscape paintings, and bring your viewers into them, but it also tells you what to pack for plein air sketching, how to photograph the setting once you're there, and how to simplify and rearrange what you see so it will translate onto the canvas. It features over 10 step-by-step demos take the guesswork out of where and how to place the elements and how to simplify the landscape. It also includes tips on critiquing your work.

Genres: Art

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2012