Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting,9780486229270

Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

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ISBN13: 9780486229270
ISBN10: 0486229270
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1973-06-01
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

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

How to Approach Painting
9(8)
The Mechanics of Painting
17(16)
Angles and Consequent Values
33(14)
Design---A Pattern of Differing Values
47(6)
Light---Unity of Tone and the Meeting of Edges
53(10)
Aerial Perspective---Transitions in Value and Color
63(12)
Linear Perspective
75(10)
Color---Its Emotional Value in Painting
85(10)
Trees---How to Understand Them
95(11)
Clouds---How They Float
106(9)
Composition---The Expressive Properties of Line and Mass
115(12)
The Main Line and Theme
127(5)
The Extraordinary and Bizarre
132(5)
Painting from Memory
137(5)
Index 142

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