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Create Landscapes that Come Alive with Light, Color, and the Breathtaking Sensations of "Being There!"
Landscape painting is all about capturing that feeling that embraced you at the scene: the graceful arch of birch trees in the wind. The unthinkable pink masses of ground cover along a seaside trail. The last afternoon sun accenting yellow aspen trees against the foreboding darkness of the clouds. This book will show you how to recreate such moments using edges, shapes, the quality of your brushstrokes, and other tools of your trade. Learn how to take your viewers there--to the autumn field, the rainy city afternoon, the heaven-touched mountain stream--and let them taste the same 'earthiness' that drew you to this place.

Immerse Yourself in Your Paintings
Carolyn will help you elevate your landscape paintings from 'pretty' to 'breathtaking.' With her instruction and advice you'll create paintings that capture the mood, feeling and beauty of the place, transporting you and your viewers right into the scene. In this book, she shares her techniques for creating atmosphere with every stroke:

* Choose colors to communicate a mood, from serenity to high drama, and use color schemes to bring harmony and freshness to your paintings
* Tap into the emotive qualities of light and shadow
* Exploit the expressive power of edges
* Use a strong value plan to make your viewers feel as if they were present in your landscape as it was being created
* Design every element of your composition, from the dimensions of your painting to the placement of your focal point, with the intention of communicating a particular mood.

Carolyn Fills Every Page with Wonderful Tips!
For example, she offers great color-mixing tips for landscape painters, like how to modify tube colors to achieve a greater range of grays and more natural looking greens. Her approach is faster than mixing from scratch--and, of course, speed is especially important when painting outdoors.

Let Your Brush Describe the Scene
With Carolyn's instruction on brushwork you'll learn how important each stroke can be, and how each stroke can produce a different feeling or look in your paintings.

Be Convincing!
In this book, Carolyn not only shows you how to render different lighting and weather conditions, but also how to make your painting decisions quickly and accurately. Step-by-step demonstrations show know-how applied, including how to:
* Capture the particular color and mood of light at different times of day
* Make your scenes sparkle with shadow contrasts
* Convey a tangible sense of fog, overcast days, reflections in rain, and the feel of the seasons

Fresh Air Inspiration
Carolyn does a fabulous job of addressing the needs of the beginning artist, providing 'easy ins' for your first plein air sessions: 'Choose simple arrangements and try to see the landscape in big masses of light and dark. Lay in the basic shapes first, do not think about detail at this stage. Define one focal point and resist the temptation to paint unimportant details.) Beginners should consider starting out with smaller canvases, which promote simplification of compositions.'

At the same time, the book gives you plenty of room to grow by via tips for seeing color more accurately, ways to increase the drama of a scene by introducing more contrast or changing a color temperature, and other opportunities to take your landscapes to the next level. It's all the instruction and inspiration you need to create landscapes that come alive with light, color, and the breathtaking sensations of 'being there!'