Outdoor Sketching collects the four Scammon Lectures that Francis Hopkinson Smith delivered before the Art Institute of Chicago in 1914. Smith was an engineer, popular novelist, and accomplished watercolorist, and here he shares the practical wisdom of a working painter on capturing landscape and architecture directly from nature.
With warmth and anecdote, he discusses materials, the management of light and atmosphere, and the discipline of rapid sketching in the field. Part instruction, part reminiscence, the book is an engaging companion for anyone who paints out of doors. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.