Pastel landscape paintings

It's fascinating how the same landscape can change depending on the time of the day, season of the year, and the specific kind of weather. We asked three pastel artists—Don Williams, Margi Lucena and Margaret Evans—about painting weather in a landscape.

Embrace the serene beauty of dawn with our "Tranquil Meadow at Sunrise" digital artwork. This high-resolution download features a lush landscape bathed in the soft glow of morning light. Delicate wildflowers in hues of pink and white dance in the foreground, leading your eye to a tranquil river that gently meanders through the awakening meadow. The pastel sky, adorned with whispers of clouds, promises the start of a peaceful day. This instant digital download includes a high-quality image in…

Original impressionism painting by Amita Dand (India). This one-of-a-kind acrylic on canvas painting measures 30W x 30 H inches, and is framed. The landscape painting ships in a tube directly from the artist's studio and is covered by the 14-day satisfaction guarantee from Saatchi Art, so you can buy with confidence.

Guest blogger, Barbara Jaenicke, shares the way she sets up a painting for success by using an paring down into just a few shapes into an abstract design.

How often have you seen a gorgeous sky only to be disappointed by the photo when you tried to capture it? This is one of the reasons I love painting skies! Y...

'Late Afternoon Walk' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $145 Do your pastels whisper or shout? Do th...

Suzanne Siegel Studio

Our experts offer 10 tips about how to paint with pastels, regarding choosing pastels and surfaces, making an underpainting, and staying loose.

Learn how to create broken color effects in this pastel tutorial from Robert Carsten, a featured artist in the Oct 2011 issue of Pastel Journal.

Many artists draw their painting inspiration from the landscape. Why? There's the practical aspect: Unlike other subjects—a figure model or a wildlife subject, for example—the landscape is there and ready to accommodate your schedule. You can step outside your door at any time, if you like, and start looking for compositions. That said, the lure of the landscape for most has much more to do with the creative aspects ...