Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What You Need -- Materials for Painting Outdoors -- Materials for Inside the Studio -- Painterly Secrets -- Find Your Own Voice -- Abandon Negative Thoughts -- Take Yourself Out of the Process -- ch. 2 Design Basics -- Why Design Is Important -- Line, Value and Color -- Composition Notes -- ch. 3 Value And Color -- Value -- Learn to See in the Abstract -- Many Values -- Are Closer Than You Think -- Comparisons and Patterns -- Using Light and Dark Masses -- Creating Atmospheric Perspective -- Seeing Naturally -- Local Color -- Color and the Palette -- More About Color -- Reflected Light -- Early Morning Light -- Afternoon Light -- Autumn Scene -- Winter Scene -- ch. 4 The Colorist Approach -- Your Subject Is Always the Light -- Color Mixing -- Look for These Complements as Subject Matter -- Visual Mixing to Achieve Color Vibrations -- Pushing Complementary Colors -- ch. 5 Expressive Brushwork -- How the Old Masters Did It --

Contents note continued: Juxtaposition of Painterly Brushstrokes -- Juxtaposition of Impressionistic Brushstrokes -- Using Brushstrokes to Indicate Direction -- Go Big and Go Outside -- Go For It! -- Free Yourself -- Create Expressive Brushstrokes -- Smaller Brushes and Dynamic Shifts -- Lost and Found Edges -- A Last Thought on Color -- ch. 6 The Process Of Painting -- Country Road at Evening: A Lesson in Design -- Chagrin Falls: A Lesson in Movement -- Eagle, Colorado In Winter: Snow Is Anything but White -- Savannah Park: Painting a High Overcast Day -- Bachelor Gulch, Autumn: A Lesson in Secondary Colors -- Harbor Scene: A Lesson in Using Artistic License -- Walborn Pond, A Lesson in Laying Paint Wet-in-Wet -- ch. 7 Gallery Notes.

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.--