Soft Pastel

Soft Pastel
Author: Ken Goldman
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781560107415

Possessing qualities of both drawing and painting, soft pastel is a fascinating and versatile art medium. This Walter Foster and Reeves project book for beginners is the ideal introduction to soft pastel, teaching aspiring artists the techniques and skills necessary to create beautiful artwork. Soft Pastel contains several exciting and easy-to-follow projects that are accompanied by colorful visual examples. It’s no wonder soft pastel has been a popular medium for centuries-it's versatile and easy to work with, and it produces an impressive array of rich, vibrant colors. Best of all, there are no painting mediums or drying times to worry about. In this helpful book, you will discover timeless tips and techniques for creating your own masterpieces in soft pastel!

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.

Mastering Pastel

Mastering Pastel
Author: Alain Picard
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2015-04-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600584314

In this new addition to the Artist's Library series, talented master artist, Alain Picard, guides the reader through an exploration of this unique medium and its myriad uses. After an introduction to tools and materials, readers will learn how to use various pastel techniques, including hatching, crosshatching, and stippling, to create depth and dimension in their artwork. Readers will also find basic information on color theory and how to use color to elicit emotion, portray mood or time of day, and suggest depth and distance. Throughout the course of the book, aspiring pastel artists will learn how to use soft and hard pastels to achieve art that is bold and intense or delicate and soft. Easy step-by-step lessons cover a variety of subject matter, including landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. Artist tips and tricks demonstrate how to blend and layer colors and create reflection, shadow, and soft and hard edges. With its breadth of professional instruction and variety of subjects to paint, Mastering Pastel is the perfect resource to start building artist proficiency in this enthralling and versatile medium.

Pastel Painting Step-by-step

Pastel Painting Step-by-step
Author: Margaret Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Pastel drawing
ISBN: 9781844488612

A comprehensive guide to painting with pastels including easy instructions on how to master tone, colour blending, composition, perspective, and more.

Worlds Within Worlds

Worlds Within Worlds
Author: Kerby Rosanes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0593086236

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling artist that brought you the Morphia series, this incredible coloring book includes 96 double-sided pages of pure imagination in an all-new Kerby Rosanes universe. A new fantastic and super-detailed adult coloring book, in an entirely new world, from the prodigious bestselling illustrator. Colorists will find Kerby Rosanes's new creations to be hypnotic, with spread after dizzying spread featuring creatures, people, animals, and landscapes that blur the line between familiar and magical, between reality and imagination. Fans will be thrilled to see Kerby return with this 96-page book, providing an apparently endless coloring challenge for even his most dedicated and enthusiastic fans.

Pastel Artist's Bible

Pastel Artist's Bible
Author: Claire Brown
Publisher: Chartwell
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2009-09-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0785820841

This guide to pastel painting includes sections on materials, the principles of color, techniques, and a final section on subjects that is designed to help you learn by example.

Pastel Innovations

Pastel Innovations
Author: Dawn Emerson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440350469

Pastel Painting Techniques That Are Revolutionary, Fun and Easy! Designed for beginners considering using pastel for the first time, for experienced artists who may feel uninspired, and for anyone in between, the skills you will gain with Pastel Innovations, will help you build confidence and open your world so you can paint what CAN BE, not just what you THINK is. Explore the unique joys of pastel painting with: • An exploration of the basics: You'll expand your artist's vocabulary learning to use the elements and fundamentals of design to create beautiful, balanced paintings. • 20 simple exercises build off each other and help you grow as an artist, little by little, building confidence. • 40+ innovative pastel painting techniques: Feel inspired as you learn new approaches to using pastel to build up and reveal layers, incorporate monotypes as underpaintings, create texture that cannot be duplicated by drawing or painting, and more. • Thoughtful self critique: Questions, approaches and checklists that will result in better art, while at the same time making you a better artist. Leave your expectations behind and engage in the process of pastel painting with a newfound freedom to play and explore!

Pastel Pointers

Pastel Pointers
Author: Richard McKinley
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440308390

Top Secrets for Beautiful Pastel Paintings Richard McKinley has been a professional artist for over 35 years. Factor in nearly as many years of teaching experience, and that adds up to a whole lot of know-how to share. In Pastel Pointers, he lays it all out: information on tools, materials, color, composition, landscape elements, finishes and more. Compiles the best of McKinley's popular Pastel Pointers blog and Pastel Journal columns Covers frequently asked questions ("How do I achieve natural-looking greens?") and simple solutions to common problems, such as excess pigment buildup Includes a chapter on "The Business of Pastels"—tips for framing, shipping, preparing for gallery shows, and otherwise representing your work in a professional manner This book covers everything from the fundamentals to get you going (how to lay out your palette, create an underpainting, evoke luminous effects) to inspirations that will keep you growing (plein air painting, working in a series, keeping a painting journal). Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter anxious to explore the expressive possibilities of pastel, this is your guide to making the most of the medium.

Pastel: Basics

Pastel: Basics
Author: Alain Picard
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600583415

Pastel Basics seeks to create a fun and approachable means of introducing this adaptable medium to beginning artists, illustrating that pastels are accessible to any artist who wants to work with them.

The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques

The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques
Author: Judy Martin
Publisher: Bilimsel Eserler
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Acrylic painting
ISBN: 9780855329594

A comprehensive A-Z directory of pastel techniques and a step-by-step guide to their use.--Cover.