As in the other popular Wendon Blake step by step painting guides published by Dover, the focal point of this beautifully illustrated easy to follow guide is a 32 page section in full color. This includes 10 step by step demonstrations devoted to landscape colors, and the development of seven varied landscape paintings - showing the reader how to paint trees, mountains, meadows, streams, ponds, clouds, and sunsets. Other sections offer expert practical advice about selecting colors and mediums brushes palettes, and other equipment: about the varying uses of bristle and softhair brushes; and about some of the problems the beginning landscape artists may face in depicting trees, mountains, and snow. Readers will also find a wealth of tested tips on selecting landscape subjects, composition, lighting, linear and aerial perspective, and ways to model and give texture to the landscape elements. Whether they are just beginning or have been working in oils for years, painters who long to create their own landscape masterpieces will find this book an indispensable resource, and will find George Cherepov's illustrative paintings inspirational and worthy of close study.