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Top Pick Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color
Kevin MacPherson

Now in paperback! Considered to be one of today's top master plein-air painters. Great book, lots of sound advice.

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Top Pick Plein Air Painting in Oil
Frank Serrano

A small volume packed with top info on how to paint en plein air in oil. I recommend for any painter as the concepts apply across all media. [Review by L. Diane Johnson]
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Top Pick Plein Air Painting in Watercolor & Oil
Frank LaLumina

Step-by-step guide for painting en plein air. Great beginner to advanced volume from supplies to a finished painting on location.

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Top Pick Top Pick Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
John F. Carlson


A CLASSIC! THE book no landscape painter should be without. The standard by which all other landscape painting books are measured. You'll refer to this book again and again. It not only covers the basics but detailed descriptions on why and how things operate in nature -- and how things can impact your painting. Applicable to all media. (Review by L. Diane Johnson)

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Top Pick Hawthorne on Painting
Charles W. Hawthorne

A nother classic, must have for your plein air painting library.
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Top PickTop Pick Composition of Outdoor Painting
Edgar Alwin Payne


There is no other book on the market today that can address composition and painting in the landscape than this one! Easy to read and understand volume by this master painter of the landscape en plein air, Edgar Payne. Composition is one area that artists must explore and tackle to achieve a successful painting. This book does it! (Review by L. Diane Johnson)

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More great titles we recommend:

Inventing the Landscape : From Plein Air Study to Studio Painting
Richard Crozier, Thomas Bolt

Plein Air

In the Light of Italy:
Corot and Early Open-Air Painting
Philip Conisbee, et al

Plein Air Painters of California the North
Ruth Lilly Westphal

Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland
Ruth Lilly

Painting Watercolors on Location With Tom Hill
Tom Hill

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