Pastels For Dummies

Pastels For Dummies
Author: Sherry Stone Clifton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2010-01-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0470606886

The latest tips and techniques for working with pastels - in full color Pastels offer bright colors, a great level of portability, and no drying time - plus they're relatively inexpensive and can be used to draw and paint on almost any surface. Pastels For Dummies covers the many aspects of this exciting medium, from the fundamentals of choosing the right materials to step-by-step projects, including landscapes, abstracts, and portraits. Inside you'll find hands-on, easy-to-follow exercises and attractive full-color artwork. Presents drawing, painting, and shading techniques and styles in an easy-to-understand format Accessible to artists of all levels Discover your inner artist with Pastels For Dummies and make your artwork come alive!

Pastels for the Absolute Beginner

Pastels for the Absolute Beginner
Author: Rebecca de Mendonça
Publisher: SearchPress+ORM
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1781268347

Discover the limitless possibilities of pastels with this beginner’s guide to creating modern, lively, and colorful pastel artwork. Artist and teacher Rebecca de Mendoça offers beginners a complete course in using pastels. Step-by-step exercises and longer projects help you to build the essential skills you need to paint a range of subjects, including landscapes, still life, portraits, and animals. Vital drawing techniques are explained and demonstrated, along with easy-to-follow explanations of color theory, composition, and the pastels themselves. This volume includes techniques for using both hard and soft pastels, eight skill-building projects, and a wealth of finished artwork to provide ideas and inspiration.

Oil Painting For Dummies

Oil Painting For Dummies
Author: Anita Marie Giddings
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1118051998

Nobody ever said that oil painting was easy. But it gets much easier and a lot more fun when you follow a step-by-step approach that starts you off on the right foot, helps you build your skills one at a time, and gives you plenty of exercises to develop your craft. That’s what you’ll find in Oil Painting For Dummies. Completely free of arty jargon, this full-color guide has all the hands-on instruction you need to master the basics. You’ll see how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create stunning compositions. You’ll also find everything you need to know about oil paints, solvents, and pigments; brushes, palettes, and painting surfaces; and how to keep costs down at the art supply store. Discover how to: Choose the right supplies Set up your studio and care for your equipment Handle your materials safely Develop your design and composition skills Make practice sketches and studies Use broken stroke, dry brush, glazing, scraffito and other brush strokes Try out different compositions Mix any color you want Simplify tricky still-life subjects Paint landscapes and common objects out doors Paint portraits and the human form Complete with handy color chart, basic materials list, and a very useful viewing square, Oil Painting For Dummies is the fun and easy way to discover your inner artist!

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner
Author: John Elliot
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823033119

Designed for the serious beginner, this volume offers step-by-step advice on painting in oil pastels. Lessons progress simply from easy subjects and techniques to the more difficult and complex. First, artists learn how to use oil pastels to create traditional paintings in still landscape and portraiture. Then the author explores 12 specific experimental techniques, including impasto, washes and monoprint; stencil and screen techniques; and methods for combining pastel with soft pastel and mixed media.

Coloring For Adults For Dummies

Coloring For Adults For Dummies
Author: The Experts at Dummies
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1119176913

The most colorful way to reduce stress—while having fun! Adult coloring is absolutely a growing trend and consumers are really taking to the idea. Not only is it calming and good for your health, it's just plain fun! For those of us who can't retreat to a spa on a regular basis, coloring offers a creative, affordable, and novel way for busy adults to relax and unwind from the hectic pace of modern life. Coloring For Adults For Dummies is here to serve as a guided coloring book for harried adults of any age who are looking for a fun and easy way to decompress and find joy while engaging in this timeless activity. Whether used for enjoyment, to relieve stress, or as an excuse to get together with friends for a coloring party, Coloring For Adults For Dummies is filled with intricate, detailed, and inspiring patterns & designs and provides hours of stress relief and mental relaxation! Designed for you to color in with markers, colored pencils, or even your kids' crayons, the pages inside this book are awaiting your imagination and creativity to bring them to life—all while you relax and enjoy staying in the present. Even older children who love to color can enjoy this unique and special coloring book. Offers 100 highly-detailed coloring templates Helps you channel your anxiety into a satisfying, creative accomplishment Promotes finding energy for your stressed soul Encourages you to express your inner creativity A novel way for busy adults to relax and unwind from the hectic pace of modern life, Coloring For Adults For Dummies is the perfect way to step back from the stress of everyday life and color your way to peace and relaxation. Even older children who love to color can enjoy this unique and special coloring book.

Acrylic Painting For Dummies

Acrylic Painting For Dummies
Author: Colette Pitcher
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0470526483

Hands-on, full-color instruction in this versatile painting medium Acrylic paint is easy to use, quick to dry, a cinch to clean up, and relatively inexpensive–which makes it a great medium for amateur artists. Following a simple step-by-step approach, Acrylic Painting For Dummies provides hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow exercises in acrylic painting techniques and styles, making the medium accessible to would-be artists at all levels. Featuring large-scale projects at the end of most chapters and ample additional opportunities for readers to paint along, this friendly guide will help anyone discover the artist within.

Drawing For Dummies

Drawing For Dummies
Author: Brenda Hoddinott
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1118032004

The fast and easy way to learn to draw Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from your imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it's something just about anyone can learn to do. Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn the drawing basics. Holding fast to the simple philosophy that only you can teach yourself to draw, it gives you the tools you need to explore the basics and move on to more advanced techniques. This revised edition of one of the most successful For Dummies guides includes Additional step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, still life, and more Coverage of effects, composition, and perspective How-to art projects that show you how to create your drawings from simple geometric shapes to finished artwork It's never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies, 2nd edition put you on the road to discovery and self-expression through drawing.

Watercolor Painting For Dummies

Watercolor Painting For Dummies
Author: Colette Pitcher
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1118052005

Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to create breathtaking paintings so beautiful you won’t believe you made them yourself. This friendly, guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you master the basics. Filled with full-color projects and sample paintings, it shows you how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. You’ll find out how to select the best tools, materials, and supplies, practice basic brush strokes, and use the three best common techniques: flat wash, graded wash, and rough texture. Discover how to: Select the right brushes, pigments, and paper Mix colors and work with white Create backgrounds and foregrounds Transfer your drawings to watercolor Avoid common watercolor mistakes Experiment with texture using salt, sponges, plastic wrap, and more Find your way around the color wheel Practice the principles of design Plan compositions using thumbnails Work with one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective Paint fabrics, shiny surfaces, and organic textures Paint landscapes, seascapes, animals and more Complete with strategies for improving your painting immediately and marketing and selling your work, Watercolor Painting For Dummies, is the resource you need to make your creative dreams come true.

Oil Pastel Step by Step

Oil Pastel Step by Step
Author: Nathan Rohlander
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600581335

This comprehensive, 64-page book offers in-depth instruction on creating vibrant paintings with the often overlooked but versatile medium, oil pastel. A relatively new fine-art medium, oil pastel is inexpensive and may be used directly in dry form with minimal setup and easy clean up, so beginners can get started right away! The book opens with a thorough introduction to basic oil pastel tools and techniques. Then, artist-author Nathan Rohlander shows aspiring artists how to render a wide range of subjects—from flowers and animals to landscapes and portraits—with simple, step-by-step demonstrations and stunning illustrations.