Landscape in Pastel DVD: Reflections of Monet's Garden

You’ll Love This Pastel Painting DVD If:

• You love the works of Monet & want to create similar effects on your own paper or canvas
• You love painting in pastel & want to learn more foundational techniques
• You want to learn straight from expert artist, Urania Christy Tarbet

Learn how to paint a landscape that rivals the work of Monet in this step-by-step pastel painting DVD. Urania Christy Tarbet shares her pastel painting techniques in her demonstration of Monet’s reflecting pond at his garden in Giverny. Starting with the right materials, Urania then covers landscape painting tips for archiving pastel works and keeping track of her pastels. In this pastel painting video workshop you’ll learn several tested techniques for applying and layering color.

Urania Christy Tarbet tones her pastel surface, an Ampersand Pastel Board, in a way that promotes continuity and harmony. Once you block in the right shapes into your landscape, Tarbet then lays in the orrect colors demonstrating how to create subtle color shifts and overlap colors to create a wide range of clear greens. The DVD concludes with Urania’s favorite tips for making pastel clean-up & framing easier.

In Landscape in Pastel DVD: Reflections of Monet's Garden You’ll Learn:

• How to block in basic landscape shapes by using simple vine charcoal
• Tips & techniques for overlapping multiple layers in pastel
• How to paint a luscious green landscape in the style of Monet step-by-step

About the Artist: Urania Christy Tarbet

Urania Christy Tarbet is the founder of the International Association of Pastel Societies and she is a member of the Pastel Society of America and Pastel Society of Canada. She has won many awards for her pastel work including the Mary and Fred Trump Award from the Pastel Society of America and the Award of Excellence from the Kansas Pastel Society.