Fill your paintings with spring light, winter scenes, autumn ambiance, summer sunsets, and more!
Dramatic Color in the Landscape will help you to discover ways to enliven your paintings with the brilliant color of your favorite seasons while exploring simple yet effective color concepts and ideas evident in everyday and dramatic lighting situations. Learn to continually evolve and improve upon your landscape compositions, step by step, with countless helpful tips and techniques designed to help you express your interpretation of any given scene.
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52 reviews for Dramatic Color in the Landscape: Painting Land and Light in Oil and Pastel
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John R. Bennett –
Fabulous book. Lots of pictures and clear instructions. It is fun to follow along and learn how to do landscapes with truly brilliant colors.
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An Ru –
I like Brian Keelers paintings. I thought I was going to find more instruction on how to accomplish similar use of color. There is a bit of that. Mostly it catalogues his paintings, which I enjoy and which serve as inspiration.
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Martoni48 –
For those interested in bringing bright colors into your paintings. This is the boook. I devoured the book in one setting. A must read over and over again
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gena chastain –
Beautiful artwork and great tutorials. Well worth the purchase.
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Myron Shelp –
Excellent book, good tips, how to use beautiful colors, etc. Smart buy for my art library.
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Anne –
A fabulous book with stunning demonstrations of how the different paintings achieved their final brilliance. Certainly art works that would stun the general public. If only . Wow. Great inspiration.
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iris flower –
Absolutely beautiful colors! Landscapes don’t have to be pale and monochromatic.I am very happy to have this book in my collection!
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SLR –
Love this book!!! Love his color use and composition style. The photo colors are so accurate and they are high resolution so you can blow them up!!!
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Jeff Walmsley –
Brian Keeler’s work has a poster-like quality, which I happen to find attractive. Browsing through his book on arrival, many of the illustrations, especially those in the panoramic format, evoked a nostalgic recollection of those works of art one used to find decorating the compartments of passenger trains, more years ago than I care to admit, extolling the virtues of Britain’s many scenic places. The book’s cover could well have graced the cover of one of the thick, old-fashioned railway timetables of those days. Taste in art is a very personal thing, and whilst some may find this style anathema, others will share my view.
The author is an unashamed colourist, and earns multiple brownie-points from me on that score alone. Whilst again a personal thing, I find it depressing the way in which certain artists take all those bright pigments and turn them into dull, dark works which need a spotlight for proper viewing. I like gaiety on my walls – there’s enough gloom in the world without creating more. This artist, by contrast, is determined to create joy.
Although an American publication, some of the landscapes of upstate NY and Pennsylvania could well have been painted in this country, complete with black and white cows. His subject-matter is wide and varied, however, embracing coastal and rural landscapes, town and cityscapes, woodlands and waterfalls, nocturnes. and even a few from Venice, Rome and Tuscany. Within the limits of such a volume, the advice given is comprehensive, sensible and well-organised, and the book’s layout and design is pretty much impeccable, being, for once, pleasing devoid of extravegant gimmicks.
Altogether a refreshing new addition to the wealth of how-to-do-it works on painting, for newcomers and collectors alike, and although devoted to oil and pastels, of equal value to the acrylic painter. Some watercolourists might even find it helpful…
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Jeff –
Beautiful images. Great painting tips.
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JetsonJoe –
Excellent artist. Great paintings. Book a valuable addition to artists book shelf. He is a talented artist. Highly recommend.
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Jose Manuel Gallego –
No me ha parecido un libro muy útil, se puede resumir todo el contenido en: usar complementarios a lo bestia. En general no está mal si estás empezando, pero para nivel medio se queda corto, y para avanzado no sirve de nada.
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sleepymonk –
Excellent book, good step by step instruction. Worth adding to your library.
John R. Bennett –
Fabulous book. Lots of pictures and clear instructions. It is fun to follow along and learn how to do landscapes with truly brilliant colors.
An Ru –
I like Brian Keelers paintings. I thought I was going to find more instruction on how to accomplish similar use of color. There is a bit of that. Mostly it catalogues his paintings, which I enjoy and which serve as inspiration.
Martoni48 –
For those interested in bringing bright colors into your paintings. This is the boook. I devoured the book in one setting. A must read over and over again
gena chastain –
Beautiful artwork and great tutorials. Well worth the purchase.
Myron Shelp –
Excellent book, good tips, how to use beautiful colors, etc. Smart buy for my art library.
Anne –
A fabulous book with stunning demonstrations of how the different paintings achieved their final brilliance. Certainly art works that would stun the general public. If only . Wow. Great inspiration.
iris flower –
Absolutely beautiful colors! Landscapes don’t have to be pale and monochromatic.I am very happy to have this book in my collection!
SLR –
Love this book!!! Love his color use and composition style. The photo colors are so accurate and they are high resolution so you can blow them up!!!
Jeff Walmsley –
Brian Keeler’s work has a poster-like quality, which I happen to find attractive. Browsing through his book on arrival, many of the illustrations, especially those in the panoramic format, evoked a nostalgic recollection of those works of art one used to find decorating the compartments of passenger trains, more years ago than I care to admit, extolling the virtues of Britain’s many scenic places. The book’s cover could well have graced the cover of one of the thick, old-fashioned railway timetables of those days. Taste in art is a very personal thing, and whilst some may find this style anathema, others will share my view.
The author is an unashamed colourist, and earns multiple brownie-points from me on that score alone. Whilst again a personal thing, I find it depressing the way in which certain artists take all those bright pigments and turn them into dull, dark works which need a spotlight for proper viewing. I like gaiety on my walls – there’s enough gloom in the world without creating more. This artist, by contrast, is determined to create joy.
Although an American publication, some of the landscapes of upstate NY and Pennsylvania could well have been painted in this country, complete with black and white cows. His subject-matter is wide and varied, however, embracing coastal and rural landscapes, town and cityscapes, woodlands and waterfalls, nocturnes. and even a few from Venice, Rome and Tuscany. Within the limits of such a volume, the advice given is comprehensive, sensible and well-organised, and the book’s layout and design is pretty much impeccable, being, for once, pleasing devoid of extravegant gimmicks.
Altogether a refreshing new addition to the wealth of how-to-do-it works on painting, for newcomers and collectors alike,
and although devoted to oil and pastels, of equal value to the acrylic painter. Some watercolourists might even find it helpful…
Jeff –
Beautiful images. Great painting tips.
JetsonJoe –
Excellent artist. Great paintings. Book a valuable addition to artists book shelf. He is a talented artist. Highly recommend.
Jose Manuel Gallego –
No me ha parecido un libro muy útil, se puede resumir todo el contenido en: usar complementarios a lo bestia. En general no está mal si estás empezando, pero para nivel medio se queda corto, y para avanzado no sirve de nada.
sleepymonk –
Excellent book, good step by step instruction. Worth adding to your library.