Paint Landscapes in Acrylic with Lee Hammond

By Lee Hammond

Book Overview

Enjoy the scenery with fast and fun landscape painting A summer sunset, a bubbling brook, a sea of golden wildflowers like nature itself, landscape painting doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. In this beginner-friendly guide, Lee Hammond shows you how to use a handful of colors, a simple three-step approach, and the friendly medium of acrylic to create charming landscapes throughout the seasons. - Step-by-step instructions for painting favorite landscape elements--skies, trees, grasses, mountains, water and more--provide endless mix-and-match possibilities. - 16 paint-along landscape projects can be completed quickly, using no more than 8 colors each. - Basic brushwork techniques, easy-to-learn painting methods, and lots of step-by-step instruction get beginners painting fast. One of the most popular art instruction authors out there with 20+ years of experience, Lee Hammond shares tried-and-true secrets for achieving a sense of distance, evoking mood, painting realistic textures, and much more--everything you need to turn any moment in nature into a personal work of art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600613098
• ISBN13: 9781600613098
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"