Unlock a Landscape Painting Treasure Chest!
Over 40 Essential Landscape Lessons for Better Paintings
If you're one of the many North Light artists who own Gordon MacKenzie's best-selling Watercolorist's Essential Notebook, you're already a fan. For the rest of you, get ready for a real treat with MacKenzie's latest--The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes!

What makes this book stand out from other books on landscape painting is MacKenzie's 25+ years of workshop-teaching experience, which gives him a keen perspective on what students need and want: things like how to paint rocks or reflections of storm clouds...how color qualities and compositional processes help you make better pictures...and what is going on in his head when he creates. It's all here, presented in the friendly, straightforward style that MacKenzie is known for. He makes watercolor painting fun, and your results more successful.

30+ years of Painting Experience in 1 Book!
An Absolute Must-Have for Any Landscape Painter!
On the surface, this book is an incredible course on landscape painting, complete with sampler-style demonstrations on how to paint various elements. On a deeper level, it is about listening to your heart and following your inspiration. "For me," writes Ontario-native MacKenzie, "it was the spirit of remote Northern lakes and forests speaking in breathtaking images for the eye and timeless silence for the soul." His paintings reflect that emotional bond with the natural world.

In this book, MacKenzie shares his passion for the land, the medium of watercolor, and the marriage of the two. He starts with the essential techniques, tools and information that you need to work with watercolors--everything from stocking your studio to how getting the right grip on your brush can help you loosen up. He then delves into taking control of your composition. Anything but the typical dissertation on design, this chapter approaches composition as self-expression, and concentrates on ways to hold your viewer's interest through definite atmosphere, dynamic movement and strong contrasts.

The final, largest chapter features 30 painting demonstrations and covers all the wonderful specifics of painting water, sky and land. You'll LOVE the breakdown of each element, one by one and step by step.

Oh, the Places You'll Paint!
A virtual treasure chest for landscape painters, this book is overflowing with 30+ years of tips, tricks and brush-in-hand techniques. It is rich with the same sense of fun and experimentation that attracted you to watercolor in the first place.

Best of all, it is intended to help you learn about watercolor, from watercolor. The step-by-step format and MacKenzie's no-fail approach will have you painting now, no matter what your skill level. Pick up your brushes and follow along to places of joy, wonder, and personal fulfillment!

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