PublishedNorthlight, April 2015 |
ISBN9781440337277 |
FormatHardcover, 144 pages |
Dimensions27.6cm × 21cm |
Learn to see, think and paint like an Impressionist master! Monet. Renoir. Van Gogh. Redfield. Garber. These beloved Impressionist masters continue to inspire with their rich and vivid artistry. Their styles and methods are alive and thriving today in the work of contemporary master George Gallo, who will lead you through all you need to know from start to finish to create Impressionist-inspired landscape paintings in oil.
More than 50 powerful lessons, tips and secrets for composition, brushwork, value, lighting effects, colour and movement 80 stunning landscape paintings, including country roads, waterfalls, parks, woodlands, harbor scenes and more 7 step-by-step painting demonstrations that reinforce the importance of composition, movement, colour and light Impressionist Painting for the Landscape will help artists of every skill level achieve more expressive and personally satisfying results. Dive in to discover classic oil painting traditions, new perspectives on the medium and fresh paintings to inspire you to new heights. | Impressionist Painting for the Landscape will help artists of every skill level achieve more expressive and personally satisfying results. Dive in to discover classic oil painting traditions, new perspectives on the medium and fresh paintings to inspire you to new heights. | Readers will master the art of impressionistic oil painting. Key topics and techniques covered include: building paintings by relating everything you put down to something else in the painting, mastering the art of design, using the colourist approach, creating expressive brushwork, finding your own voice, and taking yourself out of the painting process. Taking yourself out of the painting process means eliminating all negative thoughts and focusing on a positive outcome in order to create good work.
""By painting larger paintings outside you don't have the luxury of time. Having too much time can cause you to overthink things,"" Gallo says. ""If you allow yourself to just put down what you see and keep moving forward - as you must because the sun is constantly moving - you will get closer to the truth and develop your own voice. Only then will you reach that state of mind where you're completely connected to your subconscious. And when you're working in that place you're creating from a very pure, very honest, very unblocked place.""
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Well-known artist and author George Gallo is both a famous painter whose work can be found in prominent collections around the world including | the private collections of celebrities such as Robert DeNiro, Meg Ryan, Bruce Hornsby, Gary Sinise and Mel Gibson. Author is also writer and director of the award-winning autobiographical film Local Colour. He also has several other film credits including Middle Men, Bad Boys and Wise Guys among many others.
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7 full step by step demonstrations
