I would highly recommend this book. I'm a former art student who has recently gone back to painting and this book gave me a huge boost in the right direction. I did one block study and went right to a couple of her landscape demonstrations - matching her technique and color choices. That's all it took for me to understand her theory of how to use color to define the lights and darks in a painting and now I feel I can take what I've learned and apply it to any work I do in the future. That to me is an important tool with any art instruction book. You must be able to take what you're learning and understand how to use it in a more general way - not just within the confines of rote copying from the lessons.
In essence the author teaches you to look for warms, cools, or neutrals in the landscape (or any object really), check for its value (where it fits on the grayscale), and simply use a color to represent that shade you see. (i.e. the shadows of a yellow object could be a deep purple or blue; a mountain in the distance can be underpainted with purples and greens and scumbled with its complentary colors to get a beautiful, vibrant effect.

Very colorful and creative in suggestions. Uses example as teaching tool.... visual is the best way to share artistic ideas. Use it for help in seeing and painting with Impressionistic eyes.

This is a very good book about impressionist landscapes. But, it is not what I was looking for or thought I was going to receive. A book like this should be seen before buying.

Nonetheless, a good book to have in your library.

While a useful read, with techniques well explained, several good exercises and very well illustrated, this book is firmly in the field of American Impressionism, not French. If you are primarily interested in the techniques of French Impressionism, this is not the book for you.

Really one of the best. I have 300 books (plus, oh my gosh), but this is the BEST book for impressionistic painting.