Paint Landscapes in Acrylic: With Lee Hammond

Description

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 colours, a simple three-step approach, and the friendly medium of acrylic to create charming landscapes throughout the seasons. Step-by-step instructions for painting favourite landscape elements | skies, trees, grasses, mountains, water and more and provide endless mix-and-match possibilities. 16 paint-along landscape projects can be completed quickly, using no more than 8 colours 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. | Shows how to use the author's easy 1-2-3 process to create realistic landscape scenes. This title helps you learn to paint the individual elements for landscapes. It includes shape and 'puzzle piece' theories that can apply to what readers want to paint, more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations and many tips for landscape paintings.

Polly "Lee" Hammond is an illustrator and art instructor from the Kansas City area. She owns and operates the Midwest School of Illustration and Fine Art in Kansas, where she teaches realistic drawing and painting. She is expanding her career into writing children's books which she will also illustrate. Recently married, she is sharing her husband's love of motor sports and beginning a new aspect of her career by illustrating various types of racing.