Landscape Painting in Pastel: Snow

Wonderful! She makes snow a colorful and vibrant subject. I look forward to tacking some of my photo winter scenes.

Liz gives a start to finish demo in this video while narrating fluidly. I will be watching this again, probably several times!

Liz does a good job explaining the variety of warm and cool colors found in snow due to sunshine and shadow at various times of the day. I liked the idea of a snow journal.I can see using this in other areas of my work. I will no longer be afraid of painting snow in any medium!

light-shadow-color-composition all very well explained, also learned about under painting

I can not get enough of her videos. She is superb

As usual, lots of in depth information and a wonderful painting to boot! Liz brings practical knowledge and a creative use of color and materials!

As always, a GREAT video by Liz! I was so excited to see a snow scene by my favorite artist!! I wish she made a video every day!!

Yippee! Another awesome video from Liz! Was I ever tickled when I watched the full-length interview today with Liz & Jamie Markle (vs. only a part of it that's in the introduction at the beginning of the video) to learn that there are 3 news videos. Well, two of these latest videos I've now seen am really looking forward to seeing the third one when it's posted. No matter what your preferred medium is, I swear you can learn so much from Liz's videos about color temperature (warm/cool), value, and intensity as well as atmosphere that applies to painting landscapes in any medium. In this video, Liz focuses on how the qualities of natural LIGHT and its sources (direct light from the sun, cast light/color from the larger sky above, or on an overcast, cloudy or wintry day), the overall atmosphere, and time of day affect the various colors we can see in snow and in shade and cast shadows on the snow). Indeed, if you've had trouble "seeing the light" (where the light is coming from and its multiple effects on the variety of colors that can be seen in directly lit objects or areas as well as in open areas, farther distances, and in cast shadows of objects or shaded areas, studying a snowy landscape helps you to better see these effects without the distraction of numerous other colors of "things" in the landscape to contend with during other seasons. While Liz said that she fell in love with snowy scenes and trying to figure out and capture the variety of colors she saw in the snow at an early age, it was astute of her to choose painting a snowy landscape for this video because it really does help to isolate these particular factors about light and its effects on the landscape. Whether or not you're in the mood to study-- much less paint--a snowy landscape now after such a long, harsh, frigid winter of snow storms and record accumulations that many of us have experienced across the U.S. or elsewhere (at this juncture, as a resident of Michigan, I've HAD it with the snow that I found so beautiful and captivating at the beginning of this season), watching this video can help you to start looking more closely and carefully at where the source(s) of light are, its qualities, and their effects on the colors you see in a landscape during other seasons. I'm totally convinced of this. Last year, I started seeing the blue of a clear summer sky overhead reflected on the tops of shiny leaves of the corn growing in the field, one edge of which is just a few yards from my house and studio window. I've marveled at the long violet shadows cast by the tall trees growing on the edge of this otherwise "green and gold field" when planted with wheat in what was with the warm, orange-ish light of late afternoon, with the sun setting behind me out of view. I've also enjoyed looking for and trying to capture the bounced light up onto objects (like on tree trunks/limbs or fence posts) from reflective surfaces like snow or water, and the colors of nearby objects lit by direct sunlight, such as the bottom of tree trunks or the warm brown color of the wood siding on my house reflected in the nearby snow. Never ceases to amaze me the variety of colors one can see in snow and in all seasons. Finally, JUST A TIP when watching this video.... When Liz is showing the color swatches in her "Snow Log," the bright studio lights wash out most of the lighter-colored swatches so that you see no color at all in some of them--they look like blank white paper or empty boxes/swatches. However, in the camera close-ups of the pages when she's pointing to these swatches with her fingers, try to pay more attention to the cast shadows of her fingers or hand on the page. Then you'll be able to detect the faint hint of those lighter colors vs. what appears to be empty boxes. Fleeting glimpses, for sure, and you still won't be able to see all of those lighter color swatches, but I don't know how the lighting in the studio could have been changed during shooting that segment--if at all--without diminishing or changing the darker colors more easily seen.

Very informative and easy for a beginner to understand! The concept of carving out depth through the use of light as well as dark is likely not something of which many beginners have a firm grasp. This video is easy to stay "tuned into" and one does not want to get up and go get a drink or take a break. One of the truly good things about the video is her repair of fairly glaring mistakes! One can feel more confident in correcting a mistake when one realizes that truly fine pastelists DO make mistakes and have to correct them. The simplicity of the underpainting technique used makes that particular concept easy to understand and to emulate in one's own work without being quite so concerned as to how perfectly one is duplicating a particular piece. Excellent teaching video and one of my favorite things is that the artist talks to herself throughout the work...most of us really do that, you know! This may be her best video so far!!

Brilliant, as always! I soaked up every stroke and word Liz made and said. I learnt so much about pastelling snow- something I have never done as I live in a warm area where it never snows! Liz makes me want to give it a go, every time I watch her videos. I must add that I am now pursuing my art part time as a career and I have to honestly say Liz has played a small part in my decision! The only 'complaint' I have is Liz makes it look way too easy! There needs to be 100's more Haywood-Sullivan videos (and books) made, pretty please!