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Painting the Landscape in Pastel

by Albert Handell, Anita West

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Editorial Reviews

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 how the pastelist depicts skies, trees, buildings, water, rocks, woods, snow, and light.

Customer Reviews

Landscape in Pastel, 2009-08-07
by pastelpainter

This is a wonderful book to view and read ,great instructional info and very inspirational. Gets the juices flowing !

Painting the Landscape in Pastel , 2009-04-12
by Peggy Hendrick

Beautiful illustrations in pastel techniques. Many samples of pastel artwork in beautiful photographed work.

Wonderful book, 2008-03-08
by S. C. Heller (San Luis Obispo, CA, USA)

I found it very informative, giving me new ideas to use in my art. Great pictures.

Disappointing, 2008-02-14
by Darla Heart (Deep South)

I ordered this book because it was supposed to provide "lucid instructions for first time pastelists" but I found this definitely not the case. There are no instructions--just advice and that is so general that it is close to useless. Much better instructions with demonstrations can be found in other books. There are many illustrations in this book, but for my taste, the paintings are crude and unattractive. Certainly nothing I would care to emulate.

Painting in pastel? , 2007-12-31
by Sirde (Sautee Nacoochee,GA)

Handell"s current work doesn't impress me as much as his former style. Sometimes longtime artists get carried away with their own notoriety, and get just too artsy. This is more a"coffee table " book than something to learn from.