Painting the Impressionist Landscape

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By Lois Griffel

This is the REAL "How to Paint like an Impressionist". If you look around the net you will find a lot of praise for this book. Any praise you see is well deserved. If you love the broken color and light effects of the Impressionists, you will love this book. I think the most inspiring part of the book is Lois' painting style. Her work is featured, of course, and I really like it.

The book teaches the techniques of Henry Hensche at The Cape Cod School of Art. It stresses the fundamentals of painting block studies to learn how to see color. There are also a good number of other demonstrations on full landscapes. The book also has some history and some basics sprinkled in the text. It is all presented with the clear stong opinions consistent with producing this style. Highly recommended even if this is not your main style. It may make you get your painting knife out!

How to Paint Like the Impressionists

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By Susie Hodge

I like this book okay. It is in my personal library, but it feels somewhat like my last review with How to Paint Like Monet. This one is a nice looking book and covers demonstrations of several Impressionists, but it doesn't really teach any huge secrets.