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Paperback Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting: A Problem/Solution Approach to Improving Your Landscape Paintings Book

ISBN: 1648370454

ISBN13: 9781648370458

Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting: A Problem/Solution Approach to Improving Your Landscape Paintings

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An Essential Part of Any Art Library

Four decades after its initial debut, renowned artist Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting is back by popular demand.

Foster Caddell devoted his entire life to his art, beginning with developing a sophisticated drawing technique while in high school. He was employed as a lithographer before serving with the US Army Air Corps in World War II, documenting life in the Pacific Theater with his sketchbook and watercolors. Upon returning to civilian life, Caddell continued working in lithography while engaged with freelance illustrating and portraiture, and he began teaching after being approached by local aspiring artists eager to learn his techniques. From these humble beginnings, Foster Caddell soon became the founder/teacher and CEO of the largest private art school in southern New England, located in Voluntown, Connecticut.

Intended for intermediate to advanced artists, this is not your standard how-to art book. Using his own artwork as a visual aid, Foster gives the reader 50 tips, or "keys," for solving a variety of problems in oil-based landscapes. Foster Caddell packs decades of wisdom into the pages of this must-own guidebook for artists of all skill levels.

Be sure to complete your library of Foster Caddell's works with his Keys to Painting Better Portraits (hardcover, 1626545944) and Keys to Successful Color (hardcover, 1626545774), also published by Echo Point Books.

Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (ISBN 1635610427).

Customer Reviews

2 ratings

WONDERFUL TECHNIQUE BOOK!

Each page shows a demonstration of how Mr Caddell takes a painting and totally improves it with instructions to the reader as how to do it. He uses all his experience to show you how to improve on color, contrast, edges, value and much more. I love my copy and you need this color 1996 edition instead of the older version with black and white paintings.

A very good book

This is a revised and edited reprint of Caddell's 1976 Landscape Painting Book. The 50 keys in this book contain many of those from the original, but some have been replaced and others shifted in order. Sections of the book have been removed and others added or rewritten. All told, I think this is by far the better book of the two. A very definite plus for this book - the vast majority of the illustrations are color where the majority were b & w in the original. If you own the original and wish the images were in color... many of those same ones are in color in this edition and it's worth having both.
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