This large-format book showcases Richard Schmid's sixty-plus years as a landscape painter, featuring over 300 color images enhanced using the latest state-of-the-art printing technology. Richard has enriched this landmark work with over 100 new captions and many original drawings in the margins.
THE LANDSCAPES tells the visual tale of an artist and his life-long romance with the colors and light of our natural world. Through a delightfully candid narrative and stunning full-color images, Richard reveals the experience of capturing life as it unfolds. Readers will discover that landscape painting is unlike any other art form and that artistic skill is just one of the many abilities required to succeed in this field.