Painting Brilliant Skies & Water in Pastel: Secrets to Bringing Light and Life to Your Landscapes

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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’ve got magic. Get them improper and your entire 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’ll be able to experience the joy of painting glowing skies and sparkling water.

Inside you’ll be able to find:

  • 24 step by step demonstrations showing the creation of breathtaking skies and water in pastel.
  • Techniques for painting skies, including the quite a lot of types of clouds and how light changes depending on the season and time of day.
  • How to depict water in all its forms, from calm, reflective ponds and meandering rivers to whitewater cascades and ocean waves.
  • A clear and simple approach to the puzzling concepts of aerial perspective and the nature of reflections.
  • A primer on materials to help novice artists and newcomers get started in pastel.

Beautifully illustrated with stunning landscapes, Painting Brilliant Skies and Water in Pastel is a should for artists who have not found the targeted help they are trying to find in other landscape painting books. Use it to profit from natures’ inspiration and pour mood, movement, and poetry into your paintings.

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