The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour, credited to Sir Alfred Edward East, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour by Sir Alfred Edward East. Read in English by Sue Anderson Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil painting advice by a master landscape artist, Sir Alfred East. East had an exceptional ability to capture the individuality of trees, the quiver of their leaves against the sky. “If we look at a photograph, the edges of the trees do not give you the feeling that the tree is a living thing, they are marked with hard precision against the light, like a solid building, and yet at the same time if we see them in Nature we hear the whisper of their leaves and know that they live and breathe. To express that is a greater truth than the camera can reveal, and a higher form of realism.” East served as president of the Royal Society of British Artists from 1906 to 1913. - Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour
• Author credits: Sir Alfred Edward East
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 4:15:38

Catalogue topics

• oil painting
• landscape painting
• painting technique
• japan paintings royal society of british artists
• alfred east art gallery

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 14:34
2. 01 - Attitude Towards Nature — 11:35
3. 02 - Equipment — 18:30
4. 03 - Sketching from Nature — 25:37
5. 04 - Pencil Drawing from Nature — 11:11
6. 05 - Composition — 28:38
7. 06 - Colour — 15:27
8. 07 - Trees — 18:00
9. 08 - Skies — 17:49
10. 09 - Grass — 11:26
11. 10 - Reflections — 16:00
12. 11 - Distance — 9:36
13. 12 - Selection and Treatment of a Subject — 16:17
14. 13 - Painting from Nature — 40:58

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