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Why Do My Clouds Look Like Cotton Wool? Art Instruction Book

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Take a look at my new book on landscape art that tackles common peeves associated with landscape painting, such as painting water, skies and mountains. Now available in large edition. Inspired by this blog and my experience teaching art, this book is a compilation of difficulties artists and beginners often face when landscape painting. Bursting with colour images and almost 30,000 words. Hard copy measures 10x8in and is 85 pages. Art Solutions for Landscape Painting Many solutions for landscape art are suggested, including techniques for painting clouds, reflections in water and shadows. By simple strategies, the artist can avoid garish colours in flowers, washed out landscape colours and buildings that appear skewed. This book also forces the artist to look harder at the subject matter, making more sensitive observations regarding the colour of snow or skies, for example, and also the contours of shadows and trees. Common Peeves with Landscape Art My years of teachi...