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Liz Haywood-Sullivan

The Fine Art of Pastel

In my career as a designer, I had worked in numerous design disciplines, but had never really felt a master of any of them. When I left design to focus strictly on my fine art, I wanted to try doing something all in, and the pastel medium caught my attention. I was intrigued with pastel because of its tactile, immediate nature, the intense colors, and the thrill of painting light. I chose not only to work exclusively in pastel, but to focus strictly on landscapes. I figured at some point I’d get bored, or run out of things to say, and look around to other media. Wrong. Instead, the longer I work in pastel the more opportunities open up. The depths of the medium are endless.

This has led me to teaching. Until you try teaching you don’t know if you will like it, or even be good at it. As my career progresses, teaching has become more and more an important part of who I am as an artist. Interacting and sharing with students has informed my work and made me a better artist. The past ten years I have devoted to being president of two art non-profits, first the International Association of Pastel Societies, and currently, the North River Arts Society. After this interlude in the non-profit sector, and after teaching around the world, I believe now is the right time to bring my instruction online to you.

My instructional videos will closely follow my own interests in the pastel medium, which includes living the life of an artist. I can’t separate the two. In addition to lessons in how to use this stunning medium I will also be discussing traveling with pastels, how they are made, framing and presentation, inventory, and so much more. I am open to your suggestions.

It is exciting to bring these videos to life, and I look forward to working with Epiphany to share my love of this remarkable medium with you.

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LHS-Intro to Layers of Water

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This is an introduction to the layering technique and terminology that I use in all of my water instruction videos. I recommend that you watch this basics video first.

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LHS-Introduction

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Welcome to my Epiphany Fine Art page. Let's take a tour of my studio.

Liz Heywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo

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LHS-Painting a Tree: Construction

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The basic construction of a tree is discussed from the trunk to the envelope of smaller branches

Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo

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LHS-Painting a Tree: Doing Skyholes

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Everyone wants to know how to do skyholes. In this video I show you how to paint different types of skyholes, and also discuss why they appear the way they do.

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LHS-Arial Perspective in Water Reflections (part 1)

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This full demo incorporates many of the aerial perspective principles laid out in my introductory video. The focus is on how the execution of reflections can indicate three-dimensional distance and depth.