{"id":1589,"date":"2020-01-30T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:12:52","slug":"painting-better-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/painting-better-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Better Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Painting Better Landscapes. Now there&#8217;s a topic I&#8217;ve always been interested in and if you&#8217;re here reading this, perhaps you are too.<\/p>\n<p>Early on in my art development I was always on the search for books to help with painting better landscapes and the art of oil painting in general. However, when faced with so many choices a statement made thousands of years ago by a wise king came to mind, who said: &#8220;To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.&#8221;\u00a0 Agreed.<\/p>\n<p>As time passed, some of those collected art books ended up in garage sales. Others have survive<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1590\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/painting-better-landscapes\/betterlandscapes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes.jpg?fit=452%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"452,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1580396299&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0044642857142857&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Painting Better Landscapes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes.jpg?fit=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes.jpg?fit=452%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes-226x300.jpg?resize=226%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hagermanart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/betterlandscapes.jpg?w=452&amp;ssl=1 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>d having been deemed worthy of keeping. So I&#8217;m sharing one in particular that has survived all these years and one that I still refer to from time to time. The book can still be found on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The title is: Painting Better Landscapes: Specific Ways to Improve Your Oils written by Margaret Kessler. You can see it on Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Painting-Better-Landscapes-Specific-Improve\/dp\/082303576X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a> This is not an affiliate link. Simply sharing where you can find it.\u00a0 The image shown is the back of the book and highlights some of the contents it contains. Hope you benefit from this same book as I have. There&#8217;s a few more and perhaps those will be shared in another post.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a favorite art book on landscape paintings? Please share by commenting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting Better Landscapes. 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