| Description |
144 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
How to approach painting -- The mechanics of painting -- Angles and consequent values -- Design, a pattern of differing values -- Light, unity of tone and the meeting of edges -- Aerial perspective, transitions in value and color -- Linear perspective -- Color, its emotional value in painting -- Trees, how to understand them -- Clouds, how they float -- Composition, the expressive properties of line and mass -- The main line and theme -- The extraordinary and bizarre -- Painting from memory |
| Summary |
Introduces the mechanics of painting by analyzing the guiding principles and techniques |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Reprint of 1958 ed |
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Also issued online |
| Subject |
Landscape painting -- Technique.
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| LC no. |
72095436 |
| ISBN |
0486229270 |
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