Includes index

"T9084"--Back cover

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Getting started with pastel -- Chapter 2. Spring landscapes -- Chapter 3. Summer landscapes -- Chapter 4. Autumn landscapes -- Chapter 5. Winter landscapes -- Chapter 6. How to critique your own paintings

"Capture the magic of nature in pastel! From the first ferns unfurling in spring to the flaming red foliage of fall and the snow-blanketed quiet of winter, master pastel artist and teacher Elizabeth Mowry offers both beginners and seasoned artists alike a fresh approach to creating light-filled landscape paintings. Using her decades of experience and gift for observation, Mowry infuses every page with time-tested pastel techniques to convey the distinctive mood, color and majesty of the natural world. You'll learn to translate the magic of what you see into what you paint through palette selection, use of materials, value and composition, blending your emotional response to nature's beauty with an ever-growing mastery of a pastelist's skill."--Provided by Amazon.com