May 102013
Painting Brilliant Skies & Water in Pastel
From skies above to water below, discover the secrets to glorious landscapes! No two elements of the landscape bring the artist greater inspiration–or greater challenge–than sky and water. Get them right and you have magic. Get them wrong and your whole painting is off. In this book, popular pastel artist and teacher Liz Haywood-Sullivan shares her secrets for getting them both right, every time. With her practiced and proven approach, you can experience the joy of painting glowing skies and s
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Important Book on Pastels for Your Art Studio Library,
YES, this book is worth purchasing. It is a brilliant book offering you great instruction, insight and inspiration using pastels. The author starts out telling you how to get started in pastels, and goes way, way beyond that. A book for all levels. Techniques are shown and described. Value studies, simplifying shapes, underpainting techniques, painting mood, and lots more.
THE SKY sets the mood in a painting, and the author,Liz Haywood-Sullivan fully explains the importance of the sky in the landscape. She uses photos of her beautiful pastels with clear descriptive wording. Photos show the wrong way and the right way to do cloud formations. Liz shows how to apply clouds to the sky in step by step instructions; tells you what blues are best to use, how to paint the changing light and changeable sky,the drama of sunrise and sunset skies, and moonlit skies.
WATER is often in landscape paintings and if you wish to learn how to do water well in a landscape painting, then this book will explain and show you how to do it well. Again, there are photos showing the wrong way and the right way of painting believable reflections in the water and aerial perspective. Find out how to paint water from still water, moving water,falling water, the ocean, as well as painting fog, painting rain,transparency in water. Gorgeous photos of her work in the book telling also what type of pastel papers or boards were used and pastels.
Don’t miss out on this book and what you can learn from the author.
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|Fantastic,
This is a great book for any painter, pastel or other medium, she has wonderful tips and clear instructions. I am going through it slowly and hopefully soaking it all in.
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|Great book!,
I received this book today and it is just wonderful. Liz discusses techniques and composition then goes on to talk about the science of the sky. She has clear explanations and demonstrations for different types of skies. She also talks about painting different water scenarios and then integrates the two. I look forward to more Liz books.
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