Painting the Landscape in Pastel Book: Painting the Landscape in Pastel Book
Known for his use of luminous color, Albert Handell, whose lush landscapes light up these pages, provides lucid instructions to help first-time pastelists achieve impressive results as soon as they begin working with the medium. After reviewing pastel supplies, the author discusses landscape composition and how to establish large shapes first, abstract certain areas, develop a focal point, work from dark to light and capture the illusion of reality through color. Stepped demonstrations isolate specific landscape aspects, showing the pastelist how to depict skies, trees, buildings, water, rocks, woods, snow and light. This paperback edition is 128 pages with 150 color illustrations.