Landscape Painting in Pastel
Three DVDs by Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Each DVD is around two hours of excellent teaching with a lot of fundamental knowledge shared all throughout the teaching demonstration. The instruction also contains many useful tips for doing things in a sensible way, for the best painting experience and best results in your artwork. Liz Haywood-Sullivan is generous with her teaching and the DVDs are packed with information.
Landscape Painting in Pastel: Surface Colour and Texture
Follow along with expert artist Liz Haywood-Sullivan as she creates two pastel paintings of the same sunset landscape, one on white paper and one on black. See how the surface material she chooses makes a difference. Liz goes into detail on the types of surfaces you can choose and how the colour and texture of the surface upon which you apply your colour will affect your final piece. Discover how the tone of the background can affect the mood of the finished artwork. In addition to learning about choosing the right materials for the final outcome, uncover expert advice for painting sunset landscapes. Learn how to start with an underpainting, build and refine landscape elements, and paint clouds and reflections in water. You will learn to create spectacular sunset landscape paintings and purposefully control the final mood with your choices of materials.
Landscape Painting in Pastel: Snow
Paint alongside Liz as she demonstrates painting a pastel landscape from start to finish and discover a variety of important techniques along the way. Learn how to train your eyes to see that snow is not just white and actually a variety of colours. Discover how important and useful a snow journal is and find tips on creating accurate records from photo references to colour logs. Acquire tips on composition, and how to block in accurate proportions while learning the right tools for evaluating and correcting mistakes. Finally, finish your painting with highlights and watch as Liz creates consistency in light and adds form to the snow.
Landscape Painting in Pastel: Plein Air
Go on location with Liz Haywood-Sullivan to discover how to paint landscapes en plein air. With Liz’s help, overcome the challenge of creating a pastel landscape en plein air from start to finish without using photographic references. Start your landscape painting by learning the necessary tools and materials to take with you on location. Watch Liz on site create thumbnail sketches and discover the key components in choosing the right location and composition. Learn to create a strong and accurate value plan out of charcoal on site as your guide to adding colour back at the studio. You’ll also learn to acquire essential pastel painting techniques and ways to add color. Finally, discover how to refine details such as reflections in water, enhance atmospheric depth, and deepen shadows to create a dynamic and harmonizing finish in your landscape painting.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan’s book and pastel sets
Read about Liz Haywood-Sullivan’s book ‘Painting Brilliant Skies and Water in Pastel’ in this earlier blog article.
Jackson’s stock two Terry Ludwig Soft Pastel sets with colours selected by Liz Haywood-Sullivan:
- Terry Ludwig Soft Pastel Set 60 Liz Haywood-Sullivan Skies & Water
- Terry Ludwig Soft Pastel Set 30 Liz Haywood-Sullivan Landscape
Liz Haywood-Sullivan
After a successful career as a graphic and exhibit designer Liz Haywood-Sullivan turned her artistic focus to fine art and the pastel medium in 1996. A landscape painter based in Marshfield Hills, MA, she finds inspiration for her award-winning paintings wherever she travels and teaches.
In 2013, Liz became the President of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) and is the IAPS representative to ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials). She is has been a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America since 1998, and holds Signature memberships in the Connecticut Pastel Society, and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. She is also a member of the Salmagundi Club of New York and the Academic Artists Association.
Dedicated to education in the arts, Liz conducts workshops on pastel painting and the business of art, and is a sought after judge. Her paintings are collected worldwide and are represented by Vose Galleries of Boston, the oldest continuously run gallery in the US.
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Image at the top:
A sunset painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan from the video Landscape Painting in Pastel: Surface Colour and Texture.
