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Mitchell Albala, whose semi-abstract and atmospheric landscapes have been exhibited nationally, is the author of three books: New Lessons in Landscape Painting, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color (both from Rockport Publishers) and Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice (Watson-Guptill), a leading title on the subject since it was published in 2009. In addition to leading plein air workshops in Italy, Albala is also a popular workshop instructor in the Pacific Northwest and has lectured on Impressionism and landscape painting at the Seattle Art Museum. He has written for International Artist and Artists & Illustrators magazines, and his work was profiled in the French arts magazine Pratique des Arts. His popular painting blog holds a top spot on feedspot.com’s “Top 80 Websites & Blogs for Painters.” His paintings, workshops, and blog can be found on his website mitchalbala.com. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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**Refine and expand your landscape painting skills with this next-level guide by award-winning painter and bestselling author Mitchell Albala.

**New Lessons in Landscape Painting builds on the success of the bestselling The Landscape Painter’s Workbook, with new topics, step-by-step exercises, demonstrations, and in-depth painting analyses. Each is designed to build stronger skills in the core practices of landscape painting: shape interpretation, composition, and color.

Alongside inspiring contemporary artwork from an array of talented artists, this indispensable reference offers intermediate and advanced skill-building lessons that apply to both plein air and studio painting. You'll learn practical strategies to improve your creative decision-making and problem-solving skills, regardless of your chosen style. 

Inside, you’ll find:

• Comprehensive lessons on color temperature, color dominance, composition, notan, edge work, abstraction, depth, and the spatial properties of color
• Step-by-step, practical exercises designed to build skills you can directly apply to solving problems in your own paintings
• Key concept primers that explain the theory behind each technique
• Over 100 paintings from more than 50 of today’s most respected landscape artists working in oil, pastel, watercolor, and acrylic
  If you're ready to move beyond the basics, New Lessons in Landscape Painting is the ideal technical resource and creative companion for your journey--inspiring you to explore new practices that will help you create more successful landscape paintings.

The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.

Also available from the series: Drawing the Head for Artists, Essential Human Anatomy for Artists, Facial Expressions for Artists, Figure Drawing for Artists, Life Drawing for Artists, Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists, Dynamic Still Life for Artists, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists, Plein Air Techniques for Artists, Light and Color in the Watercolor Landscape, and Sketching Techniques for Artists.

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Contents

Introduction

1 | The Forest and the Trees

The Poetry of Simplification

The Rigorously Shape-Oriented Style 

Shapes and Planes

Demonstration: The Art of Implication

Exercise: 10 Shapes or Fewer

Exercise: Combining Shapes

Demonstration: Simplifying with a Three-Value Study

2 | The Power of Variation

Key Concept: Aspects of Variation

Key Concept: Notan

Exercise: Variation through Abstract Notan

Key Concept: The Picture Window

Exercise: Variation in Representational Notan

All Shapes, Great and Small

 “Meaningful” Contrast

3 | The Spatial Stage

Volume, Scale, and Overlap

Perspective: An Overview

Atmospheric Perspective

Linear Perspective

Tactile Perspective

The Power of Edges

Edge Variability

The Relativity of Edges

How Value and Color Contrasts Affect the Appearance of Edges

Edges: Creative Translation, Not Direct Transcription

Choose Your Edge—Hard versus Soft

Using Edges to Control Focus

Using Edges to Imply Depth

Using Edges to Step Through the Spatial Stage

Lost and Found Edges

The Spatial Properties of Color

Exercise: Perceiving the Illusion

Exploring Ambiguous Space

Demonstration: Transparency to Opacity

Demonstration: Spatial Repair

4 | The Power of Color Temperature

Understanding Temperature

Temperature: A Relative Affair

Temperature: An Aspect of Color Contrast

Temperature: A Global Form of Contrast

Temperature Differences, Great and Small

Four Temperature Analyses

Exercise: Building Temperature Sensitivity

Key Concept: The Temperature-Driven Palette

Exercise: Temperature-Based Painting

5 | Color Dominance

Key Concept: Color Grouping

The Benefits of Color Dominance

Demonstration: With and Without Color Dominance

Dominance by Proportion

Dominance Through Hue Integration

In Practice: Eleinne Basa’s Snow Moon

Dominance in Action

6 | Day and Night

Value and Color: The Twin Forces of Light

Day

How Value Affects Hue Identity

Leading with Value Contrast

Leading with Color Interaction

Saturated Color as a Substitute for Light

Balancing Value and Color Interaction

Daylight Painting Considerations

Night

Managing Value and Color Contrast in Nocturnal Light

Frederick Remington: Blue and Green Makes Night

Demonstration: Day into Night

Nocturne Color Considerations

Between Day and Night

Twilight

Sunrise/Sunset

7 | Beyond Observational Color

Key Concept: Color Evolution

Direct Observation

Informed Modification

Interpretive Color

Exercise: Color Transposition

Beyond: Plein Air

Beyond: In the Studio

8 | Cultivating an Abstract Aesthetic

What Makes a Painting Abstract?

Inducing Abstraction

Ultra-Simplification

Expressive and/or Textural Mark-Making

Expressive Use of Color

Abstraction and Vision

Demonstration: Representational to Abstract

Abstraction and Flatness

Abstracting in Series

In Practice: Mitchell Albala

In Practice: Vahe Yeremyan

Resources

Contributing Artists

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index