Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting by Foster Caddell

Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting by Foster Caddell

Four decades after its initial debut, renowned artist Foster Caddell's Keys to Successful Landscape Painting is back by popular demand.

Foster Caddell devoted his entire life to his art, beginning with developing a sophisticated drawing technique while in high school. He was employed as a lithographer before serving with the US Army Air Corps in World War I, documenting life in the Pacific Theater with his sketchbook and watercolors. Upon returning to civilian life, Caddell continued working in lithography while engaged with freelance illustrating and portraiture, and he began teaching after being approached by local aspiring artists eager to learn his techniques. From these humble beginnings, Foster Caddell soon became the founder/teacher and CEO of the largest private art school in southern New England, located in Voluntown, Connecticut.

Intended for intermediate to advanced artists, this is not your standard how-to art book. Using his own artwork as a visual aid, Foster gives the reader 50 tips, or keys, for solving a variety of problems in oil-based landscapes. Foster Caddell packs decades of wisdom into the pages of this must-own guidebook for artists of all skill levels.

Foster Caddell was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on August 2, 1921. His teachings continue on in his three books, Keys to Successful Landscape Painting (1976), Keys to Successful Color (1979), and Keys to Painting Better Portraits (1982), which he published after his death on June 2, 2013. In 1993, the Landscape book was updated. He was happy to state throughout his career that he had spent his entire life pursuing his passion for art. He showed a talent for drawing and sketching in elementary school and began painting in high school.

He got a job at the Providence Lithograph Co. after graduating. in the state of Rhode Island He was drafted into the Army Air Force in 1943 and assigned to the position of artist. He returned to the Lithograph Company after his discharge.

In 1951, he quit the organization to work as a freelance illustrator. He went on to illustrate children's books and textbooks, as well as execute drawings and paintings for various religious groups. He began educating local budding artists in his living room, where he now lives with his wife June Kaufmann. He was soon the owner and CEO of southern New England's largest privately owned art school.

He also became a well-known portrait and landscape painter. June died in 1989, and he remarried Gail Marchant in 1993. He continued to teach and paint until he retired in 2006, at the age of 85, both at home and at workshops across the United States.