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| The Pastelist's Year: Painting the Four Seasons in Pastel | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Mowry
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 163917
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 9.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0823039358
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.235
EAN: 9780823039357
ASIN: 0823039358
Publication Date: June 1, 2001
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Product Description
In this manual pastelist Elizabeth Mowry demonstrates how to paint pastels that capture the mood, colour and majesty of the four seasons. Beginning with an overview of how to work in this medium, the volume is then arranged in four sections, each offering specific palettes, thoughts and ideas for capturing colour and tonal essences of the seasons themselves. The volume contains more than 250 colour photographs of the seasons, with instructions and text on mastering the medium of pastels.
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Great help with choosing pastels, hard or soft, brand etc. July 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I became interested in pastels, I took a dozen books out from the library including Mowry's THE PASTELIST'S YEAR, all of Paul Taggert's books, THE PASTEL BOOK, etc.
I found Mowry's books helpful regarding her use of color in this book to change the season of a scene - it's amazing. I learned a lot looking at her different views of the same scene painted to represent the different seasons. Very illuminating to say the least.
I thought thee pictures were small and could have been made larger for the serious student to see the illustrations better.
PRINT QUALITY IS FINE. THOSE ARE PHOTOS OF CONSTRUCTION February 12, 2004
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
There doesn't appear to be any print quality issues with the photos in the book. There are several step-by-step photos that don't have some of the colors added yet because they are showing how the pastel sketches were made! See pg 81 for an example. There are also some extreme close ups which show the natural grain of the strokes to show how the larger image was created. These type of photos are exactly what any reader (beginner or expert) wants in an art technique book. The previous reviewers that didn't bother to read the captions of the photos should be a little ashamed if this is what they were describing. The book also has photos of the finished pastels. In general, the book and is filled with quality photos of pastel landscapes and appears to have good instruction throughout.
 A Traditional Pastellist with a Modern Flair November 12, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Elizabeth Mowry has taken the time to establish a palate for the colors appearing in the four seasons; however, they were difficult to study since they were on different colored backgrounds. I especially liked the way she heightened the color temperature on some of her paintings. I wish she had used a greater variety of strokes. I recall that she favors the feather stroke, which was effective. She seemed to work more saliently with contrast, composition, color temperature, texture using traditional landscape themes. It would have been helpful to have a couple of paintings actual size so that I could have seen the "actual" painting. The cover has two flaps which could be used as bookmarks, which is a thought!
One of the very best !! July 22, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have read this book twice and some portions three times. I find Elizabeth Mowry to be very sharing and knowledgeable and willing to show you how she achieves certain passages in her paintings. I had been going through a dry period, and this book opened up new worlds for me. I especially liked that she tells you to make small sketches, color sketches and use photographs. All these things were beneficial to me and I wish I could thank her personally for her very inspirational book. I have also given her book to friends and they all love it.
 Poor printing quality detracts from a great book, won't buy May 28, 2002
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
I bought this book and ws really disappointed when I leafed through more thoroughly and found MANY of the illustrations were out of focus, and one had a HUGH printer error where the image was blocked on one of the printer's colors.I returned this book and have repeatedly looked at it at the book stores to see if a re-issued copy comes out that corrects these problems. My estimate is that there are 7-8 plates that are defective.
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