Painting: Land & Sea: Master the art of painting in oil (How to Draw & Paint)

What I like about this book is that it has isolated "how to" portions of the painting. It shows just a rock, or grass, or tree so you can see specifically see how that portion was done. It makes it less overwhelming when trying to understand how a certain technique is done in the painting.

Easy to follow instructions

Oil & Acrylic: Land and Sea: Learn to paint step by step is an expanded reprint and reformatting of a tutorial manual originally published in 2003. Re-released 7th May 2019 by Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 40 pages and available in ebook and paperbound formats. The electronic version of the book has a very handy interactive table of contents along with hyperlinked internal chapter and tutorial headings.Roughly 10% of the page content is used in the introduction and technique chapter. There's a general tools and materials chapter followed by a very abbreviated technique and color theory chapter. These are followed by 15 complete painting tutorials. The painting tutorials range from 1 page studies to 3+ pages for more complete paintings. The tutorials presuppose a fair amount of familiarity with techniques and materials. I would say that intermediate to advanced painters will get much more out of the tutorials than complete beginners.The chapters are full of page sidebars with useful tips and technique tricks. Each of the painting chapters includes a palette with color mixtures used. The photos and illustrations are high quality enough that in the full page finished paintings, you can make out some of the artist's underlying brushwork.This is a useful manual (and a useful series) for the moderately advanced artist.Four stars.Disclosure: I received an eARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I found this painting book helpful. However, I would have liked more specific instructions. For instance; the author provides a list of colors used in each painting but does not give an explanation on where to use them in the painting. The artist suggests using colors other than white when painting the foam in ocean waves. It would be more helpful to give specific instructions. From the photo, it looks like alizarin is used for the highlights on top of the waves and blue at the bottom of the wave, yellow and green used in the center. It is easier for me to remember and apply new techniques if the author explains how the color helps you achieve your desired effect.I liked the artists painting style. Many of the landscapes had areas of bright pastel, almost metallic colors. The artist used unrealistic colors to create a very lifelike painting. While this style is beautiful, I think it is more difficult for a novice artist to get good results.I received this galley from NetGalley.

"Painting: Land & Sea" is a short art instruction book providing tips on how to paint seascapes and landscapes with oil paints. The book briefly talked about tools, oil painting techniques, and color theory before moving on to the studies and demonstrations. While the author did show three steps and then the finished painting, the brief instructions were often tips about creating specific effects with oil paint rather than on how to paint. Which means I got some interesting tips out of it, and so will a beginner, but this might not be what a complete "tell me every move" beginner is looking for.There were a lot of good tips on how to use certain color combinations and contrasts to create certain visual effects. He also talked about things to consider when painting and why you should do things in a certain order and why. The author's method is to paint in the basic shapes and tones using a neutral color, then add colors and details on top of that base layer. There were several studies (sky, wave, rock, snow) along with tips on painting those elements. The 11 demonstrations covered several sea waves against rocks or cliffs, sunset and shorelines, trees in fields, and forest scenes as well as a mountain scene, sand dunes, and fall leaves on a forest floor. Overall, I'd recommend this book to those interested in color tips and learning to paint sea and landscapes, but I wouldn't recommend it to complete beginners.I received an ebook review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.

"Painting: Land & Sea," by Vernon Kerr is a beautiful and informative introduction to painting landscapes and other nature paintings using oil paints to create realistic paintings that Bob Ross would be proud of.The book is another chapter in a long list of art books published by Walter Foster Publishing explaining detailed "how-to" instructions for beginner painters and other artists trying to expand their repertoire. Like many good art books, Kerr starts at the beginning with materials and tools, he moves on to basic techniques and the color wheel and then he gets down to the nitty gritty with various studies.From clouds to waves to rocks and snow, the early-on studies help forming a basis of each painting. Then moving into the intricacies of the other elements of the painting is where Kerr spends the majority of his time. I found the instructions to be clear and easy to follow. The painting examples were beautiful and inspiring. There was a lot of depth in this book and every other page had expert tips to keep in mind.I feel like this is a valuable volume for any painter's library to foster continue growth as an artist. I definitely recommend it.I received this eBook free of charge from Quarto Publishing Group - Walter Foster via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. I did not receive any fiscal compensation from either company for this review and the opinions expressed herein are entirely my own.

This was very informative about how to oil paint. Not on beginning level but gave helpful hints to make the painting more professional looking! Which I need now! It shows what colors of paint to use to create special coloring or highlights. Really good if you are teaching yourself to learn how to paint

Love it

Not step by step how to paint, at all. It shows lovely pictures but does not tell you how to paint them! It only tells you the colours used.

Sorry, but this book is very light and bulky and there wasn't much helpful information.The imagery is beautiful, but I regret the purchase

Specially one of step by step painting of how to paint a stormy seasides.