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Learn to see, think and paint like an Impressionist master!Monet. Renoir. Van Gogh. Redfield. Garber. These beloved Impressionist masters continue to inspire with their rich and vivid artistry. Their styles and methods are alive and thriving today in the work of contemporary master George Gallo, who will lead you through all you need to know from start to finish to create Impressionist-inspired landscape paintings in oil.More than 50 powerful lessons, tips and secrets for composition, brushwork, value, lighting effects, color and movement80 stunning landscape paintings, including country roads, waterfalls, parks, woodlands, harbor scenes and more7 step-by-step painting demonstrations that reinforce the improtance of composition, movement, color and lightImpressionist Painting for the Landscape will help artists of every skill level achieve more expressive and personally satisfying results.
About the Author
Cindy Salaski is the co-founder and CEO of artmatch4U.com. Born in 1952, she is an artist, author, and photographer.
From 1991 to 2006 Salaski was a luxury home specialist with Realty Executives in Paradise Valley, Arizona. However, after studying with instructor Eric Wiegardt at the Scottsdale Artists' School in 2006, she decided to take a new path and focus on her first love - fine art.
artmatch4U grew out of Salaski's five-year search for the best art instructors, the best art books, the best art suppliers - in a nutshell - the best of everything related to art which was scattered all over the internet. She decided that it should all be organized in one place to enable artists and art lovers quick, easy access to everything related to fine art painting.
Along with her duties at artmatch4U, Salaski paints in oils, watercolors and pastels. She has studied with Albert Handell, Barry John Raybould, and Phil Starke. Salaski was also in a mentorship with Kevin Macpherson from July 2010 to July 2011.
Salaski enjoys writing, too. In 1984, she was named one of the top ten writers in the Scripts Category of the Writer's Digest Magazine Writing Competition. The judge was J. Michael Straczynski who was nominated for the BAFTA Award for his screenplay for the feature film "Changeling." In July 1997, Salaski was a winner in Pure Fiction's Electronic Slush Pile, coming in at third place. The winners were chosen by Martin Fletcher, editorial director at Simon and Schuster.
In the summer of 2012, Salaski interviewed Master Oil Painter Albert Handell, and wrote the article Mastering Brushstrokes with Albert Handell which was featured in Issue 88 (Dec/Jan 2013) of International Artist Magazine.
Cindy Salaski is the author of "Oil Painting With the Masters" which was published in July 2014 by F W Media/North Light Books. The book features 20 of today's greatest master oil painters.
Salaski also co-authored the book "Impressionist Painting for the Landscape" with George Gallo. A screenwriter, film director, producer, painter and musician, Gallo wrote and directed "Local Color", a feature film about an aspiring young artist who befriends an elderly Russian Master. George Gallo has written and directed many other films including "Midnight Run", "Bad Boys" and "29th Street". He won the Arts for the Parks award in 1990, has had several one man shows including three at Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City and has received numerous awards for both his painting and filmmaking.
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