This book 14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes published by North Light Books is no longer available through this website. North Light Books sold out of them a year ago. The publisher came out with "Painting the Elements," to which I am a major contributor. Over half the material in there is from my book. It is available on Amazon.com.

My book illustrates my procedure from painting a field sketch through compositional revisions to arriving at a successful composition for a "fabulous" landscape painting. It takes the guesswork out of where and how to place the elements and how to simplify the landscape.

According to the book jacket: "Now you can capture all the beauty of nature with a composition that works every time. No matter what medium you work in, this easy-to-follow guide shows you precisely how to put together breathtaking landscapes."

See the ten oil paintings from the book at Landscapes and the four watercolors at Watercolors.

A review on www.amazon.com read "When it comes to capturing the beauty of the great outdoors, it's the composition that really makes or breaks a landscape painting...Many of the composition topics are accompanied by complete painting demonstrations. Readers will come away with all the knowledge they need to link real-world nature scenes with these 14 essential compositions."