The Art of Ann Templeton explores the world and work of Ann Templeton. With over 120 full-color plates, the book illustrates her use of materials and techniques, her travels, and her approach to workshops, as well as her take on what it is to live the life of an artist. Primarily a plein air painter, Ann Templeton has developed techniques over 30 years of painting to capture the landscape quickly and to interpret it with her unique vision of color and design. She has introduced many students to her award-winning techniques in workshops she has taught. Her studio is in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico.

The Art of Ann Templeton: A Step Beyond

Arts & Photography

Johnson, Michael Chesley

Templeton, Ann

History & Criticism

FrescoBooks / SF Design, llc

Follow lessons on brushwork and how to use a palette knife, learn oil techniques for underpainting, color mixing, correcting mistakes and more. Learn to complete a painting in one session. Learn what oil painting materials will give you the best success for wet-into-wet painting and what oil painting techniques will help you achieve clean, rich color while painting wet-into-wet. Michael demonstrates a step-by-step plein air demonstration of a landscape scene and teaches you oil painting techniques, color mixing techniques, and more.

The Secret to Oil Painting Wet Into Wet

F+W Media

Work with shape & color for a strong composition and learn pastel techniques for underpainting, layering, correcting mistakes and more. Learn how to capture the moment when painting en plein air, regardless of medium. Learn what approach will give you the best results for painting on-location. Enjoy this step-by-step plein air demonstration in pastel of a landscape scene.

The Secret to Pastel Painting En Plein Air

In this workshop, you'll learn how to capture light and shadow in oil landscapes by trusting your best judgment while you paint and learning to paint what you see quickly.

The Secret to Oil Painting With Light & Color

North Light Books

Paint Sedona! A Plein Air painter's Field Guide to Sedona, Arizona, 2nd edition. 43 pp, 35 black & white photos of painting locations with map. Also includes useful plein air tips and supply lists for oil and pastel plein air painters. Written by Michael Chesley Johnson, an award-winning oil and pastel painter working in the American Southwest, coastal Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. Author of Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil & Pastel and Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island. He writes regularly for The Pastel Journal and The Artist's Magazine. Michael lives and paints on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, and in Sedona, Arizona. Visit www.MichaelChesleyJohnson.com for more. Interested in coming to Sedona to paint? Johnson teaches small-size plein air workshops October-April. For full details, visit www.PaintSedona.com.

Paint Sedona: A Plein Air Painter's Field Guide to Sedona, Arizona

Painting

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Award-winning painter Michael Chesley Johnson offers his artistic interpretation of the American Southwest in oil and pastel. In addition to a wealth of images (26 pastel paintings, 81 oil paintings plus 55 photos and illustrations), it includes essays on the landscape and also on the artistic process. Two painting demonstrations are included along with a chapter on Michael's materials and techniques. 130pp., full color.

Through a Painter's Brush: The American Southwest: Landscape Paintings of the Four Corners States

Travel

Award-winning landscape painter Michael Chesley Johnson shows how to paint outdoors (en plein air) by minimizing the hassle and maximizing the fun. Loaded with tips on equipment, materials and techniques that will benefit every level of painter. 12 demonstrations in both oil and pastel, 72 paintings and 125 illustrations. 164 pages.

Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil & Pastel: Techniques for the Plein Air Painter

Award-winning artist Michael Chesley Johnson offers meditations on the process of making art and accompanies his essays with landscape paintings of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, and Downeast Maine. This art instruction book (complete with demonstrations in both oil and pastel) will be enjoyed by both art collectors and art students of all levels.Through a Painter's Brush has 140 pages filled with over 150 images -- 55 oils and 20 pastels of maritime scenery complete with detail shots and illustrative photos, two demonstrations in oil and pastel, and Michael's meditations on plein air painting.

Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island: President Roosevelt's Beloved Island

Award-winning artist Michael Chesley Johnson created 50 small oil paintings to celebrate the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park's 50th anniversary. This book contains all 50 paintings plus a short essay by the artist. The paintings feature scenery from the Park's nearly 3000 acres on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

Fifty Paintings: Roosevelt-Campobello International Park: Celebrating the Park's 50th Anniversary

49 recent landscape paintings by top plein air landscape painter Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC. Paintings are mostly painted on-location in either oil or pastel.

Artist as Steward of the Land: Landscape Paintings by Michael Chesley Johnson

Individual Artists

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