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Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting

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.

Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting

LHS-Dealing with Greens (part 1)

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Using a colorful underpainting, in this two part introductory video set, let me show you how using warm colors can make greens really sing.

pastel painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan

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

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

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 ...

pastel painting of fog

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.

pastel painting of fog by Liz Haywood-Sullivan

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.

Part three of a pastel painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan

LHS-Dealing with Greens (part 2)

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Using a colorful underpainting, in this two part introductory video set, let me show you how using warm colors can make greens really sing.

Liz Haywood-Sullivan demo sketch

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

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 clouds by Liz Haywood-Sullivan

LHS-Aerial Perspective in the Sky Demo

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Representational artist are magicians. We take a two-dimensional surface and with our toolbox of techniques we convince viewers our painting is three dimensional. One of the powerful tools we have to achieve this is aerial perspective. In this ...

Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo

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.

Liz Haywood Sullivan paints a tree

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 pastel painting

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..

Shadows on a wall pastel part one Liz Haywood-Sullivan

LHS-Shadows on a Wall (part 1)

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Learn how to drape shadows down a wall and across a walkway by following the direction of the building surfaces. Painting shadows requires subtlety in the range of values you use, and the way they can change value and hue within the shadow itself.

Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting

LHS-Shadows on a Wall (part 2)

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Learn how to drape shadows down a wall and across a walkway by following the direction of the building surfaces. Painting shadows requires subtlety in the range of values you use, and the way they can change value and hue within the shadow itself.

Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel demonstration reference photo

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.

Pastel painting by Liz Haywood-Sullivan

LHS-Shadows on a Wall (part 3)

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Learn how to drape shadows down a wall and across a walkway by following the direction of the building surfaces. Painting shadows requires subtlety in the range of values you use, and the way they can change value and hue within the shadow itself.

Liz Haywood Sullivan pastel painting reference

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.

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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

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 ...

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LHS-Using Cropmarks for Perspective

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How you can use cropmarks to help get perspective right (even if you don’t know perspective).

Liz Haywood-Sullivan pastel painting demo

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.