 |
SP13949 |
PASTEL ARTISTS BIBLE by Claire Waite Brown. Discover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide to one of the most versatile and forgiving mediums. Claire Waite Brown provides all the key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering in over 100 visual sequences. There is advice on composing your painting, using colour, adding highlights and shadows and creating textured effects. The step-by-step demonstrations range from landscapes and flowers to portraits and still life. You'll find plenty to inspire you with this captivating medium with beautiful examples in full-colour photography. |
on order - coming soon |
Login For Price |
|
 |
SP15639 |
PASTELS FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNER BOOK by Rebecca de Mendon. Artist and teacher Rebecca de Mendon a offers the beginner a complete course in using pastels. Step-by-step exercises and longer projects help you to build essential skills and allow you to produce a range of pictures, including landscapes, still life, portraits and animals. Vital drawing skills are explained and demonstrated, along with an easy-to-follow guide to colour theory. A huge wealth of finished paintings provide ideas and inspiration for your own future pastel work. |
2 |
Login For Price |
|
 |
SP15943 |
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PASTEL TECHNIQUES by Judy Martin. In this exhaustive A-Z reference for artists of all skills, a variety of different pastel types are detailed, from oil through to water-soluble pastels, amongst the multitude of techniques broken down and easily explained. The book itself is divided into two sections: the first provides step-by-step demonstrations that guide artists through a variety of techniques, from basic colour mixing through to creating special effects. The second part focuses on themes, illustrating how individual artists tackle a number of subjects, including natural landscapes, urban scenes, figures, animals and still life |
2 |
Login For Price |
|
 |
SP16216 |
START TO PAINT WITH PASTELS by Jenny Keal. Painting with Pastels is an inspiring and creative introduction to painting in this medium. Focusing on soft pastels this clear simple-to-understand book encourages you to explore the materials and methods needed to get started with pastels. There are then five stunning step-by-step projects for the reader to choose from, covering a range of subjects from flowers to landscapes and coastal scenes, and designed to build on the basic skills covered in the earlier sections of the book. Here you will learn about creating atmosphere, colour, tone, composition and perspective, and before you realise it you will have all the skills you need to create your own beautiful pastel paintings. |
2 |
Login For Price |
|
 |
SP17831 |
PASTEL PAINTING STEP-BY-STEP by Margaret Evans, Peter Coombs & Paul Hardy. This is a practical and comprehensive guide for all soft pastel painting enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced artist. Starting with advice on materials, it moves on to pastel basics such as blending, adding tone and using a limited palette. There are sections on landscape painting featuring advice on composition and painting trees and water, capturing light in pastels with tips on colour mixing, and finally flower painting, with additional information on adding water to pastels. Throughout the book, the art of painting in pastels is taught through 13 beautiful, easy to follow step-by-step projects, and each section is accompanied by a selection of inspirational paintings by the three featured artists, in a rich variety of styles. |
1 |
Login For Price |
|
 |
SP19897 |
PAINTING SKIES IN PASTEL BOOK by Sandra Orme. This book will teach beginners and beyond the confidence and skills to create convincing, stunning skyscapes, from rich, glowing sunsets to bright clouds on a fresh, blustery day. The author explores those aspects of colour that are key to painting skies: how to retain vibrancy; how to avoid muddy colours through the use of 'bridging' colours and how many pastels to use for the best effect. Each of the stage-by-stage projects focuses upon a particular sky effect, and each main stage is shown both before and after blending for clarity. Containing the all-important specifics on how to hold the pastel to make various marks, along with close-up pictures showing how the surface should look before you start to blend at each stage, this book assumes no prior knowledge and contains information and insights of value to even the most confident artist. |
1 |
Login For Price |
|
