Color, composition, and light in the landscape

S. Allyn Schaeffer

Published by Watson-Guptill, hardcover, illustrated

Mastering the elements of color, composition, and light are prerequisites for successful landscape painting. Through thirty-three selfcontained lessons and detailed step-by-step demonstrations, S. Allyn Schaeffer, a noted artist and teacher, shows you how to combine and shape these basic elements into a beautiful and cohesive whole.

Using reference photographs, color and value keys, preliminary sketches, studies, paintings in progress, and finished paintings, Schaeffer explains how to successfully develop a painting by creatively integrating elements of color, composition, and value. In each lesson, you'll learn how to use the oil medium to its fullest advantage and to successfully paint such varied subjects as an icy mountain brook, rolling faiinland streaked with autumn color, and fast-moving clouds above flowering meadows.

These workshop-style lessons will help beginning as well as inteiniediate landscape artists to create beautiful, wellconceived paintings.