Drawing and Painting the Landscape: A Course of 50 Lessons

by Philip Tyler

Capturing the landscape on paper requires the artist to look—to look deep into the distance and deep into the soul. This practical book celebrates the genre of landscape painting—the wonder of discovering the extraordinary in the everyday scene. Philip Tyler looks in detail at the materials, techniques, and approaches needed to paint the landscape, and offers advice on how to portray space, light, atmosphere, and different weather conditions. Supported by the words and images of other notable artists, he explains how to transfer one's emotional response to the landscape onto paper or canvas. There are exercises to support the 50 lessons in the book and more than 300 color images illustrate the text.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

Published October 17, 2017

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid resource. The art-making in it is somewhat fussier than I prefer to do in my art-making. But, I also got the book from the library because I was looking to improve my art-making. Also, while I appreciate the exploration of the different media, I tend to stick to one or two for this type of image making so many of the exercises are outside my interests, and I have neither the money nor the wish to purchase supplies for other media, especially knowing I would probably never use them again.

I might have gotten more from it if I had more time than the library allows. But, I am also happy to return it an have no plans to add it to my 'to buy' list.

ETA: also much of the print is too tiny to read, and the rest could benefit from a larger font size too.

[Celestial_dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book on painting. The lessons look really good and instructions are given clearly. Many other artists are also featured in this book. The author mentions contemporary artists as well as those from the past that prompts further research.

When I am brave enough to get my oils out I plan to follow the lessons in this book.