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Landscape Painting Inside and Out: Capture the Vitality of Outdoor Painting in Your Studio with Oils Kindle Edition

by Kevin Macpherson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Paint with passion, purpose and pleasure

What do you want your landscape painting to say about this place, this moment? How do you use the visual vocabulary - line, shape, value, color, edges - to say it? With this book, your conversation with nature will direct your brush. With an exhilarating, synergistic combination of indoor and outdoor painting, Kevin Macpherson shows you how to create personal, poetic landscapes that capture the feeling of being there.

Learn how to:

   • Use a limited palette in a way that is more liberating than limiting
   • Experience nature to the fullest and capture its vibrancy back in the studio through photos, sketches and outdoor studies
   • Cope with the fleeting qualities of atmosphere and light by establishing a value plan early and sticking with it
   • Incorporate impressionistic touches of broken color to give your landscape a depth and vibrancy that enhances its realism
   • Approach painting as a layering and corrective process that encourages non-formulaic solutions


Stimulating warm-up exercises in the studio prepare you for your adventures outside, while eight step-by-step demonstrations show you how to put these methods into action. Throughout, Macpherson's own light-filled landscapes illustrate the power of these techniques.

Full of fresh air and fresh art, Landscape Painting Inside and Out will guide and encourage beginners while challenging more accomplished artists to bring greater vitality and a more natural, less formulaic finish to their paintings.
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Kevin Macpherson is a highly respected artist of oil paintings and a sought after workshop instructor. A founding member and past president of the Plein Air Painters of America, his work is seen regularly in art magazines including The Artist's Magazine, American Artist and International Artist.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00YFWHF5W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Light Books (October 6, 2006)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2006
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Kevin Macpherson's intent as a painter is to capture the light that infuses every scene. He is a magician of light and shadow, but more than that, he distills the essence from the landscape, creating a finished painting that is both universal and very personal.

A few pure paint colors, masterfully blended, turn into thousands of nuanced, impressionistic brush strokes. From a freely applied abstract foundation, a colorful representation emerges. Kevin paints fast, accurately, and intuitively, using methods that are grounded in years of academic training. His paintings are poetic, and his vocabulary is color.

Besides an accomplished painter, Kevin is a gifted writer and published author as well as a teacher and guest lecturer. He seeks high standards, both academically and emotionally. He is regarded as a master mentor, a reputation well earned by years of teaching international workshops and giving personal guidance to many aspiring artists. He has authored four books, Reflections on a Pond, Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light and Color, Landscape Painting-Inside and Out, and Conversations With Nature: Oil Painting in the Tradition of Plein Air. Kevin’s technique is demonstrated on videos and has been a producer of a nationwide 13-part series American Public Television with, “Passport and Palette”, Following the Master Artists on an Artistic Expedition of the World.

Kevin Macpherson guided the prestigious Plein Air Painters of America as their first president. He is a Master Artist of the California Art Club (CAC), a Master Artist of the American Impressionist Society (AIS), and a Master Artist at Oil Painters of America (OPA).

Galleries in New Mexico, South Carolina, China and California represent his work.

Kevin has started a nonprofit foundation for teaching art to underprivileged children called artambassador.org. Throughout his career he has devoted significant energy nurturing the next generation. Today finds him more energized, bringing art and joy to the aspiring hearts of underprivileged children especially in Central America and China with his foundation, “Art Ambassador for a Colorful World,” artambassador.org.

www.kevinmacpherson.com

email: mwanda1901@yahoo.com

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paintingmn
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on painting outside that I've ever read...period.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2008
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I read Kevin's earlier book and mentioned it previously here on Amazon and yes, I thought it was great but THIS one...this one is...is...damn...words fail me. It's just simply the best book on plein-air painting I've ever read (and I must have 30 or more on this subject alone). Kevin has outdone himself with this one. He's taken all the valuable info contained in his previous book and just added to it and added to it. I'm looking and looking but I can't find ANYTHING that he may have left out or not talked enough about.

Years ago, before he established himself as The Man when it comes to teaching people how to paint outdoors, I took a couple of workshops with him and, during the first couple of days outdoors and trying to be somewhat easy in his suggestions to improve my picky little paintings, he finally got frustrated with what I'd continued to put on the canvas and, took his thumb and WHOOSH--smeared out a laborious passage I'd painstakingly put in there and wiped off his thumb and WHOOSH, did it a second time and I'll never forget how much BETTER the painting looked after those two swoops. My biggest mistake was in not stopping right there, putting it away and saving that thing for me to look at again and again. That same mentality permeates his book; you can't help but improve your paintings if you read this book and apply the principles therein.

Another note is the two back-pages by his wife, Wanda, who was only just beginning to paint when I knew them. She can really paint now but she
maintains that being really good (which she is) is not the point, but that just getting out there and not being afraid to fail and just enjoy yourself should be a reward in itself. I found her remarks to be in good juxtaposition to Kevin's solid, on-target prose about well, "Landscape Painting Inside and Out".

Buy it. Better yet, go to his website and see if you can get into a workshop with him. You won't be disappointed.
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J. Churchill
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, excellent Resource
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2020
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This book is an especially great resource, particularly for new or frustrated oil painters. The author gives very specific exercises and recommendations to improve painting skills - not the time worn ones we see everywhere , but original suggestions that actually work, especially for those of us who want to loosen our style or develop an original one. I just completed one suggestion - a limited palette, large brush and very small quick sketch - and it was stunningly effective in producing cohesive oils better than those I agonize over. They were also substantially more fun. I plan to undertake other practices recommended and expect they will markedly improve my work. My only suggestion to Mr. Macpherson would be re paint used, because he uses a variety of tube grays not necessarily available to readers. I researched the pigments in order to duplicate them, but don’t expect I came close. Never theless, the overall instruction isjust unbeatable and the author is very obviously a talented, experienced teacher. Many great painters can’t teach. Macpherson can.
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Susan E. Daily
5.0 out of 5 stars which I still love. I bought this book at the same time ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2017
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This is an encouraging, informative, and altogether lucid book. I've begun doing art pieces and I started with pastels, which I still love. I bought this book at the same time that I bought Mitchell Albala's Landscape Painting, and both books give very practical advice, and great examples of using value, hue, composition in your work. I'm interested in plein air painting, and both books discuss the process and need to prepare yourself for that work. I love this book. I'm using acrylics, not oils, but the color theory, practical aspects of seeing and interpreting what you see with brush and medium are equally apt. I have already learned essential technical principles (the execution of which he honestly shares will take much experience, gained by doing many works). He is totally encouraging, warm, and humorous. I just love this book and would recommend it to anyone who is in need of reference materials and guidance. It does everything that you could hope for from a book, so as long as you are realistic about what you can learn from reading (versus classes with a teacher or many years of personal experience), I don't think you will be disappointed. Worth it!
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Tic Tac Toe
4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly Out, Little In
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2010
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I'm confused as to why there are two listings for this book. I've read both reviews and cannot tell if I received the book being critiqued here, or if I received a later, or an earlier, edition. The other listing has only four reviews posted.

This man's passion is for plein air painting. I'm only about halfway through the book, but skimming through the rest of it makes clear that his mode of practice is to paint as much as possible outdoors. For studio work, he paints from small studies produced outdoors. It isn't until page 89 of this 141 page book that he talks about painting anything indoors.

He provides essentially no instruction on how to use photography in producing paintings, and that seems antiquated in the digital age we live in. We don't all live in climates or locations conducive to frequent outdoor painting excursions. His extensive use of premixed grays seems at odds with his otherwise purist bent and might explain the poor sense of contrast in some of his paintings (as mentioned by another reviewer). A few of his paintings (like the foreground rocks in the seascape on page 107) have strange, and out of place, "patches" of intense contrast while the rest of the paintings are very quiet. His focus on the Gamblin brand of paints seems commercial, and I wonder what financial role that company has in this book.

If you are interested primarily in plein air painting, this is an excellent book. Even if you aren't, there's still plenty here to interest you. Some of the ten exercises can be accomplished in the studio, and his instruction about how to reduce what you see to basic shapes is presented with clarity and conviction. His passion for what he does is very motivational. This book isn't quite what I thought I was buying, but I still found a lot of interesting instruction in it.
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Margaret Langtip
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Judy S
5.0 out of 5 stars I have found it really interesting and informative and am so glad to have it in my collection
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2017
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I ordered this book as I read a magazine article written by a professional artist who said he frequently referred to tis book. I have found it really interesting and informative and am so glad to have it in my collection.
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Peckybu
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best painting books I've come across.
Reviewed in Canada on July 31, 2013
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I've skimmed through the content once and intend to go though it a second time studying it in detail. I normally highlight the useful tidbits in books of this sort but I would end up highlighting almost the entire book. There are so many gems of wisdom and valuable advice in this book for novices and experienced painters alike. I highly recommend it. It's very readable and the demonstrations are very helpful as well; although, not all of them include a photo of the original scene. I'm not sure if the author thought it better to leave it out, but I would have liked to have seen where the original concept originated. Nevertheless, this is definitely one of the best books on painting that I have come across.
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juliette
4.0 out of 5 stars super
Reviewed in France on September 21, 2014
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Je trouve que les renseignements sont donnés de façons un peu brouillon, fouillis, mais l'on trouve toujours une petite idée, un truc qui nous permet de progresser même si l'on est déjà professionnel. A acheter en second si l'on est novice, après l'autre livre de l'auteur pour apprendre la peinture en plein air.
Je ne me lasse pas de le feuilleter, on sent la générosité de l'auteur à travers les lignes, je suis très contente de mon achat.
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geoffrey bunce
5.0 out of 5 stars Follow this and I WILL be a better painter
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2017
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I am really getting a lot from this book, solid tips born of experience and suggested exercises that challenge and reward.
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