Recommended Reading List
- 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 Illustration” 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
- Wissman, Fronia “Bouguereau” Pomegranate Communications; 1st edition (April 1996)
