Landscapes (Painting Recipes) - Hardcover

(back cover)
Open this book and discover unconventional approaches and techniques that will make your landscape paintings more interesting and original. You will find ten practical, step-by-step exercises, each with clear and simple instructions for employing unusual techniques that depart from more traditional approaches to painting. Also included is a special section that offers suggestions on ways to experiment with non-typical materials and produce highly original effects.

Books in Barron's Painting Recipes series encourage artists to think like an imaginative cook when starting out on a new painting. Just as a creative chef experiments with original combinations of ingredients to produce a culinary masterpiece, so too should an artist try working with unusual substances and materials to add more graphic interest to their work.