The Painterly Approach: An Artist's Guide to Seeing, Painting and Expressing - Hardcover

Rohm, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1581809980 ISBN 13: 9781581809985

Publisher: North Light Books, 2008

Synopsis

Create paintings with feeling

The Painterly Approach bridges the gap between what you see as an artist, and what you feel. More than painting an appealing landscape, it's about making your viewer feel the wind, experience the dance of shadows and sunlight, and admire the wondrous intermingling of colors that attracted you to your subject in the first place.

In this gorgeously illustrated book, Bob Rohm shows you how to see the world from a painterly perspective and translate it into expressive, poetic paintings that elicit an emotional response from your viewer.

• Clearly illustrates how to choreograph color, value, composition, texture and other fundamental elements to achieve those elusive qualities of mood and emotion
• Features 9 step-by-step demonstrations (in oil, pastel and acrylic) on capturing a vivid sense of time and place
• Covers brushstrokes, painting with a palette knife, edge control, shadows and other advanced art techniques

This book focuses primarily on landscape painting but offers valuable lessons for approaching any subject in a personal and engaging way.

About this title

Synopsis:

The unique approach and subject will give artists everything they need to create stunning landscapes, spectacular still lifes or fabulous figures.Readers will learn to identify abstract patterns, the relationships between shapes and how to provoke and emotional response from their paintings. Readers will discover what the painterly approach is and how to define an object by planes of colour and value rather than by line.The focus is on abstract pattern rather than on actual objects, on relationships between shapes rather than on detail, and on provoking an emotional response rather than absolute realism. The reader will move beyond the fundamentals to more advanced theories of perspective, brushstroking, edges, form, and shadows.Finally, a step-by-step approach to painting using two demonstrations, one working alla prima, the other en plein air will show readers how to apply the painterly approach from start to finish.

About the Author:

Bob Rohm lectures, demonstrates and teaches painting workshops internationally. He is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America and the Pastel Society of America. Bob has exhibited in national and international shows and has been the recipient of numerous awards. His art and teachings have been featured in many publications including Southwest Art, International Artist, American Artist and Pastel Journal. His work can be viewed at www.bobrohm.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: North Light Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1581809980
• ISBN 13: 9781581809985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144