LHS-Silver Subscription

49 videos found
LHS-Markmaking Part 1: Making Marks
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LHS-Markmaking Part 1: Making Marks
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What do you do with a pastel when you first pick it up. How do you handle it, how do you draw and paint with them. I will walk you through first marks from working with line to layering and blending colors.
LHS-Backlit Wave (part 1)
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LHS-Backlit Wave (part 1)
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Backlighting enhances the drama and beauty of a wave painting. How to pull it off in the under painting stage!
LHS-Backlit Wave (part 2)
30:43
LHS-Backlit Wave (part 2)
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Backlighting enhances the drama and beauty of a wave painting. How to pull it off in the under painting stage!
LHS-Waves Crashing onto Rocks (part 1)
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LHS-Waves Crashing onto Rocks (part 1)
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Using underpainting and building up layers of pastel, from dark to light, to achieve the translucency of water crashing on and moving across shoreline rock outcroppings.
LHS-Waves Crashing onto Rocks (part 2)
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LHS-Waves Crashing onto Rocks (part 2)
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Using underpainting and building up layers of pastel, from dark to light, to achieve the translucency of water crashing on and moving across shoreline rock outcroppings.
LHS-Waves Crashing onto Rocks (part 3)
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LHS-Waves Crashing onto Rocks (part 3)
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Using underpainting and building up layers of pastel, from dark to light, to achieve the translucency of water crashing on and moving across shoreline rock outcroppings.
LHS-Getting Started: Choosing Paper Color
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LHS-Getting Started: Choosing Paper Color
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Being thoughtful about your choice of paper COLOR can enhance your painting and bring it closer to your intent with less pastel and less time. Let me show you how this critical decision works.
LHS-Are your Plein Air Paintings too Dark?
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LHS-Are your Plein Air Paintings too Dark?
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Use these techniques to check the values on your plein air work. Especially helpful if you you are having difficulty capturing correct values outside or find your work looks too dark when you bring it inside.
LHS-Drawing a Winding Stream
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LHS-Drawing a Winding Stream
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A fun exercise in how to map quickly (and painlessly) the complex curves of a winding stream, or road. Test how well you see and render circuitous shapes.
LHS-How to Sign a Pastel Painting
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LHS-How to Sign a Pastel Painting
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You finish a good painting, but it isn't truly done until you have signed it. Tips on how to create a clean, legible signature. What to, and what not to, include on the front - and the back of your paintings.
LHS-Live Demo: Dappled Light On a Woodland Path with Completed Painting Addendum
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LHS-Live Demo: Dappled Light On a Woodland Path with Completed Painting Addendum
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Journey with me as I paint the patterns of light and shadow found along a forest pathway. Of special interest will be the color of light in the shadows, what is lost in a photo reference, making shadow patterns move with perspective, and working with ...
LHS-Mastering Edges in Your Clouds (part 1)
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LHS-Mastering Edges in Your Clouds (part 1)
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Improve your cloud paintings by understanding and managing edge control in your clouds. Edges are associated with focal areas and can affect your compositions. How to create different edges - sharp, layered, and lost and found.
LHS-Mastering Edges in Your Clouds (part 2)
28:53
LHS-Mastering Edges in Your Clouds (part 2)
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Improve your cloud paintings by understanding and managing edge control in your clouds. Edges are associated with focal areas and can affect your compositions. How to create different edges - sharp, layered, and lost and found.
LHS-Pricing Your Art
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LHS-Pricing Your Art
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Why is it so hard to price your art? Even established artists shake their heads at the topic. This discussion is my personal take on pricing, based on years of making and selling art, but also from being interested in the topic. Included are factors ...
LHS-Let's Talk About Pastel Papers
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LHS-Let’s Talk About Pastel Papers
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There are so many pastel papers. Where to start? What are they? Where to get them?
LHS-Live Demo: Springtime in the Mountains
2:00:05
LHS-Live Demo: Springtime in the Mountains
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Spring colors, frosty dawn light, and higher mountain altitudes impart their own unique qualities. I’ll discuss the attributes of each and demonstrate how to combine them to paint this image of a young aspen grove overlooking a mountain meadow.
LHS-Don't Use This Color in Sunsets!
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LHS-Don’t Use This Color in Sunsets!
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I don't come down hard on too many color situations but this one is a dealbreaker for me. Especially as a judge. Make sure you don't make this mistake.
LHS-Sun and Shadow on Snow (part 1)
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LHS-Sun and Shadow on Snow (part 1)
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I create a winter snow scene sparkling in brilliant sunshine using my snow log to guide my underpainting and top layer color/value choices
LHS-Sun and Shadow on Snow (part 2)
27:07
LHS-Sun and Shadow on Snow (part 2)
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I create a winter snow scene sparkling in brilliant sunshine using my snow log to guide my underpainting and top layer color/value choices
LHS-Sun and Shadow on Snow (part 3)
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LHS-Sun and Shadow on Snow (part 3)
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I create a winter snow scene sparkling in brilliant sunshine using my snow log to guide my underpainting and top layer color/value choices
LHS-Keeping Track of Your Art
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LHS-Keeping Track of Your Art
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If you've ever forgotten if you entered a show with a particular painting, forgotten to pick up after a show, or just can't find a painting ANYWHERE this discussion is for you. Full of tips and ideas that will make managing your art much easier.
LHS-Live Demo: Travels with your Sketchbook
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LHS-Live Demo: Travels with your Sketchbook
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The best way to really capture your travel experiences is not by taking photos. It is by slowing down to really see it, and draw it in a sketchbook. Sketchbooking is an easy, portable way to bring your art with you. In this demo I share with you my ...
LHS-Kickstart Your New Year
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LHS-Kickstart Your New Year
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Where do you want your Art to take you? If you have been painting for awhile this is an important question for reflection. I offer some tips on goalsetting, getting help in evaluating your art, and thoughts on guiding your art where you want.
LHS-Rainy Reflections (part 1)
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LHS-Rainy Reflections (part 1)
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Capturing rain reflections on a sidewalk at dusk is made easier by beginning with a darker paper. A good exercise in working with value.
LHS-Rainy Reflections (part 2)
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LHS-Rainy Reflections (part 2)
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Capturing rain reflections on a sidewalk at dusk is made easier by beginning with a darker paper. A good exercise in working with value.
LHS-Live Demo: Sunstreaks on Water
1:58:43
LHS-Live Demo: Sunstreaks on Water
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Let me show you how to capture the subtle play of sunlight and shadow on water. This can be a complex subject which can require some finesse to accomplish.
Sunstreaks on Water (part 1)
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Sunstreaks on Water (part 1)
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Let me show you how to prepare your painting to the point you can add in those subtle sunstreaks that cast across water at sunrise or sunset.
Sunstreaks on Water (part 2)
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Sunstreaks on Water (part 2)
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Let me show you how to prepare your painting to the point you can add in those subtle sunstreaks that cast across water at sunrise or sunset.
LHS-Creating and Using Snow Logs
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LHS-Creating and Using Snow Logs
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The color and contrast of snow is difficult to accurately capture in a photo. Then again, it's tough to paint snow en plein air! Let me show you an easy way to capture the true color of snow by creating a snow log that is very helpful in your studio.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting
38:17
LHS-Fall: Turn up the Color! (part 1)
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Have fun delving into playing with fall colors. Starting with a warm toned underpainting, I then turn the trees green and finally drift brilliant fall colors on top. This way fall colors look integrated into the foliage canopy and not garish.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting
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LHS-Fall: Turn up the Color! (part 2)
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Have fun delving into playing with fall colors. Starting with a warm toned underpainting, I then turn the trees green and finally drift brilliant fall colors on top. This way fall colors look integrated into the foliage canopy and not garish.
pastel painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan
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LHS-Live Demo: Colorful Autumn
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Pastels are known for their color and this season is designed for pastel’s brilliant colors. But how do you paint fall without the colors looking too garish? Join Liz as she demonstrates how to use underpainting as a tool to develop realistic fall color.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting
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Finding Composition in the Clouds
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever gotten lost in painting clouds! Let me show you how to work with big shapes to develop a pleasing composition in a cloudy sky.
pastel painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan
30:56
LHS-Capturing a Sunlit Moment (part 1)
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In this demo I go back to the sunlit Italian alleyway from my video on how cropmarks can be used to help create perspective. Here I use a solid sepia color underpainting to create the underlying color and texture of stucco. This demonstrates how ...
Pastel painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan
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LHS-Capturing a Sunlit Moment (part 2)
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In this demo I go back to the sunlit Italian alleyway from my video on how cropmarks can be used to help create perspective. Here I use a solid sepia color underpainting to create the underlying color and texture of stucco. This demonstrates how ...
Liz Haywood-Sullivan demo on neutrals image
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LHS-Live Demo: The Superpower of Neutrals
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In this LIVE demo I will (attempt to) paint a complete 16x16 painting using just one box of 36 neutral toned pastels on top of a monochromatic sepia colored underpainting. I wish to show you how critical neutrals, including grayed-down colors, are to ...
Liz Haywood Sullivan paints a tree
23:15
LHS-Painting a Tree: Massing and Volume
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The next step in this series, how to paint the canopy of a tree's leaves. Leaves group in volumes and rules of how light falls across a volume apply. Includes practical exercises in painting volumes.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan demo sketch
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LHS-Begin with Simple Shapes and Value Sketches
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The first step is to break down your reference image into easily understood shapes and values, giving you the opportunity to learn the “language” of your potential painting.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel demonstration
21:15
LHS-Editing for Better Compositions
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Learning how to edit is a lifetime skill. The more practice you do, the stronger your compositions get. So how do you choose the best composition from a photo reference?
pastel painting of fog
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LHS-Painting Fog (part 1)
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Painting fog is fun! Using black paper as a base helps set the atmosphere for this demo on how to use neutrals to push and pull color and value through a foggy Maine coastline.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo
28:34
LHS-Foliage Through the Seasons
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Starting with a winter tree profile, I demonstrate the evolution of spring, summer and then fall foliage on the same painting.
pastel painting of fog by Liz Haywood-Sullivan
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LHS-Painting Fog (part 2)
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Painting fog is fun! Using black paper as a base helps set the atmosphere for this demo on how to use neutrals to push and pull color and value through a foggy Maine coastline.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting
31:01
LHS-Painting Water Vapor Not Mashed Potatoes
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Learn how to work with translucency and edge management to create wispy, ethereal clouds with light and movement, not heavy and dense like mashed potatoes..
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel demonstration reference photo
23:01
LHS-Scaling Up Your Image Properly
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Check out this fail proof technique to scale up your image (without using math!). A good way to find the best cropping to fit on your paper.
Liz Haywood Sullivan pastel painting reference
23:27
LHS-The Why of Blue Skies
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Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or why a blue sky is lighter at the horizon? Watch this video for why this important to know as a landscape artist, and how it makes for better paintings.
Liz Haywood-Sullivan demo image
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LHS-The Value of a Viewfinder
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This short demonstration shows the proper use of a viewfinder outdoors, and how it will help you find the best composition.
LIz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo
1:55:24
LHS-Demo: The Dance Between Sky and Water
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Liz’s first demonstration with Epiphany has her painting the coastline of New England in the USA where she lives. Liz is known for her skies and water, the subject of her 2013 book “Painting Brilliant Skies and Water in Pastel”. Join us as she ...
Liz Haywood-Sullivan demo photo
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LHS-Using Cropmarks for Perspective
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126views
How you can use cropmarks to help get perspective right (even if you don’t know perspective).
Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo
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LHS-Putting It All Together
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Pulling together all the Good Bones steps in the previous videos, Liz shows how they work together to provide a solid start to any representational painting.