Recommended Reading

  • Ballinger, Harry R. Painting Boats and Harbors Dover 2008 (orig. Watson-Guptill 1959)
  • Carlson, John F. Landscape Painting Dover Publications, 1974
  • Curtis, Eleanor Parke Composition and Pictures Geo. H. Ellis 1947
  • Curtis, David A Light Touch- The Landscape In Oils David and Charles, London
  • Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock Methods and MAterials of Painting… Dover 2002 (orig. Longman’s 1847)
  • Gruppe, Emile Gruppe on Color Watson-Guptil 1979
  • Gruppe, Emile Direct Painting Techniques Watson Guptil, 1974
  • Gammell, R. H. Ives The Boston Painters Parnassus Imprints, INC 1986
  • Gammell, R.H.Ives Twilight Of Painting Parnassus Imprints, INC 1990
  • Harrison, Birge Landscape Painting" New York: Scribner's Sons 1922
  • Harper, Sally "The Complete Watercolor Artist" Chartwell Books, 1994
  • Loomis, Andrew "Creative Iluustration" out of print
  • Loomis Andrew "Fun With A Pencil" 1939 Viking Press
  • Macpherson, Kevin "Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light and Color" North Light Books 1997
  • Macpherson, Kevin "Landscape Painting Inside and Out" North Light Books, 2006
  • Mayer, Ralph "The Artist's Handbook" Viking Penguin 1985
  • Payne, Edgar "Composition of Outdoor Painting" DeRu's Fine Art 2005
  • Pike, John "Watercolor" Dover 1966
  • Pogany, Willy "The Art of Drawing" Madison Books 1996
  • Poore, Henry Rankin "Pictorial Composition and the critical judgement of pictures" 1922
  • Speed, Harold "The Practice and Science of Drawing" Dover 1917
  • Speed, Harold "Oil Painting Techniques and Materials" Dover 1924
  • Strisik, Paul "The Art of Landscape Painting" Watson Guptil, 1980
  • Capturing Light In Oils" North Light Books, 1995 ( same text as above- different publisher)
  • Williams, Terrick "Landscape Painting in Oil Colour" Winsor and Newton, LTD. circa 1929