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A Special Author Event with Mitchell Albala
Tuesday, November 17th
5–6pm MT
7–8pm EST
12am–1am GMT (Wednesday)
11am–12pm AEDT (Wednesday)
Mentor: Mitchell Albala
$19.00
Free For Mastrius Members.
A Special Author Event with Mitchell Albala
Don’t miss this very special event with best-selling author, master artist, and longtime Mastrius Mentor Mitchell Albala, as he launches his 3rd landscape painting book for artists!
Landscape painting presents endless possibilities but it also asks artists to make countless decisions about color, composition, simplification, and visual impact.
Join Mitchell Albala for a special event celebrating the release of his third book, New Lessons in Landscape Painting: Key Concepts and Exercises in Color and Composition.
Mitchell will share how this new book builds upon his previous landscape painting books while introducing fresh topics, practical exercises, and step-by-step demonstrations.
He will also showcase works by extraordinary painters whose art brings these important lessons to life.
As part of the event, Mitchell will present a FOCUSED LESSON on color dominance—how establishing a dominant color family can create greater harmony, mood, and visual cohesion in a painting. You will leave with practical strategies you can begin applying to your own work immediately!
You will learn:
- New concepts, exercises, and demonstrations featured in Mitchell’s book
- Ways to strengthen color and composition in your paintings
- How color dominance can create harmony, mood, and unity
- Practical strategies you can apply to your own landscape work
- How this book differs from his previous landscape painting books
The event will conclude with an AUDIENCE Q&A, giving you the opportunity to ask Mitchell your own questions about color, composition, landscape painting, and the creative process.
Open to all artists! Whether you’re new to landscape painting or looking to deepen an established practice, this special event will offer fresh ideas, clear instruction, and plenty of inspiration.
Bring your questions, your curiosity, and your love of landscape painting.
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Meet Mitchell Albala
Oil | Pastels
My work is driven by several closely related aesthetics: the inherent abstraction within nature, simplified shapes, and light.
A painting can reach a viewer in different parts of their mind. One part responds to things we can name like “houses,” “trees,” “clouds,” or the narrative itself. Another part responds to aesthetics such as color, shape, or movement. This is the part of the mind I want to reach. I consider a painting most successful when the viewer is struck by these aesthetics before they can identify the actual subject.
Color harmony is also a core instinct for me. The landscape, with its atmosphere and unified light, is an ideal subject with which to pursue this interest. If I cannot make all the colors in the painting feel as if they are bound together through a unifying color of light, then I will not consider the painting entirely successful. Each of my paintings has a distinct color chord, which is meant to convey a particular color of light or time of day. When a viewer says that the painting “glows,” I consider it the highest compliment.
Mitchell Albala is a highly respected painter, workshop instructor, and author. His semi-abstract and atmospheric landscapes have been exhibited nationally and are represented in corporate and private collections.
He is the author of two best-selling books on landscape painting: “Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice” (Watson-Guptill, 2009), with over 60,000 copies in print; and “The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color” (Rockport Publishers, 2022), which is currently the #1 selling book on landscape in the nation. Mitchell has led plein air workshops in Italy and teaches workshops throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has lectured on Impressionism and landscape painting at the Seattle Art Museum and has written for International Artist and Artists & Illustrators magazines.