Art of Drawing Landscapes

I found this book to have quite a bit of information and instruction on drawing landscapes. Well worth the money.

Most art instruction books seem to be a demonstration of the writer/artist's skills. This book impressed me by giving instruction on the secrets behind effective rendering, rather than on specific techniques of a given artist. For example, this is the only book I've seen that explains that the shadows of tree branches "approaching" the viewer should be darker than those that stay in the picture plane. It's details like that that set this book apart. I agree with the other reviewer that there aren't a lot of artworks in the book that are super-inspiring. But the work is pretty consistently good and is usually there to specifically demonstrate a point, rather than show off skills (though this does has its place in instruction books).