Michael Chesley Johnson - Plein Air Painter

Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil and PastelBackpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil and Pastel (book)

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(PAPERBACK) 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.

Michael Chesley Johnson Calendar 2009Michael Chesley Johnson Calendar 2009 (photo book)

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Award-winning artist Michael Chesley Johnson personally selected these 12 images for the 2009 calendar. Included are oil and pastel plein air landscapes that were painted outdoors and on-location in the Canadian Maritimes and Downeast Maine. Michael Chesley Johnson has been awarded Master Pastellist status by Pastel Artists Canada, and he is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Pastel Society of New Mexico, as well as a juried member of Oil Painters of America. For more, visit his website, www.MichaelChesleyJohnson.com.

Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello IslandThrough a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island (book)

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(PAPERBACK) 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.

Michael Chesley Johnson - 2009 PortfolioMichael Chesley Johnson - 2009 Portfolio (book)

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(PAPERBACK) Award-winning artist Michael Chesley Johnson has created this portfolio of both oil and pastel landscapes for galleries and collectors. Featuring the Canadian Maritimes, the book presents work done in 2008. This is a one-time issue - at the end of 2009, it will no longer be available. 40 pages with 35 paintings - 17 pastel, 18 oils