The Pastel School
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Author | : Hazel Harrison |
Publisher | : Reader's Digest Association |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Painting |
ISBN | : 9780762106981 |
Guide to working with pastels, describing different types of pastels, offering advice on putting together a basic starter palette, and including 40 step-by-step lessons for developing technique and style.
Author | : Hazel Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Pastel drawing |
ISBN | : 9780864500328 |
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.
Author | : Hazel Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780895778499 |
Pastel School contains everything you need to begin with confidence. It describes the different types of pastels available and offers invaluable advice on putting together a basic starter palette and adding the colors suitable for landscapes, portraits, flowers, and other popular subjects. Simple exercises introduce you to the effects of various colors on papers of different tones and textures. The versatility of pastels is one of their most appealing qualities, and Pastel School takes you step-by-step through the techniques that make them such a remarkable medium. From how to hold a pastel (including how the angle produces specific effects) to hatching, blending colors, feathering, stippling, overlaying, and more, each step is explained in detail and accompanied by clear illustrations. And when it's time to use your skills to create your first still life or landscape, you'll find plenty of helpful tips and guidelines about such matters as composition, lighting, and perspective - plus a gallery of finished paintings illustrating different approaches and styles. The eight projects included here demonstrate the creative process from initial planning to final touches. They give you eight great ideas to begin with, but feel free to let your imagination fly.
Author | : Debora Stewart |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2015-05-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1440335842 |
Would you love to take your art in a new direction? In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting to bring structure and depth to your art. In addition you'll begin to understand how to work in a series and how this can help you develop your own personal style. A sampling of what you'll add to your creative toolbox: • Pastel and acrylic techniques to use to complete your own paintings • The benefits of expressing your ideas abstractly • How to loosen up by using your nondominant hand and drawing to music • Ways to express emotions through mark-making • Using color and symbolism for expression • Working with photos for inspiration • Tips for using color studies Step into your own abstract frame of mind today!
Author | : Larry Blovits |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780823039074 |
Basic lessons in becoming a good painter in pastels.
Author | : Peter Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780955259142 |
Author | : Ellen Eagle |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0823008428 |
Revel in the luminous and vibrant qualities of pastel with Ellen Eagle’s essential course in the history, techniques, and practices of the medium. In this comprehensive yet intimate guide, Eagle explores pastel’s rich but relatively unexamined past, reveals her own personal influences and approaches, and guides you toward the discovery and mastery of your own vision. In Pastel Painting Atelier, you will find: • Advice on basic materials: guidance on building, storing, and organizing a collection of pastels; choosing the right paper; and the importance of experimentation • Studio practice suggestions: ideas for creating your ideal working environment and recipes for making your own pastels and supports • Study of the working process: lessons on proportion, gesture, composition, color, application, identifying and correcting problems, and recognizing when a work is finished • Meditation on subject: cues for extrapolating the subtle details, presence, and temporal features of whatever you choose to paint • Step-by-step demonstrations: Eagle’s acute insights into her own works as they progress A magnificent selection of works by masters such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, and Eugene Delacroix augment this guide, as do works by contemporary artists including Harvey Dinnerstein, Elizabeth Mowry, and Daniel Massad. Aimed at serious artists, this guide enlightens, instructs, and inspires readers to create brilliant and sensitive works in the historic medium of pastel.
Author | : Hazel Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Pastel drawing |
ISBN | : 9781845730574 |
Author | : Julia Woning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578841465 |
English version of Julia Woning's new book "PanPastel Workshop" is now available. This book covers many of the basic techniques for using PanPastel Colors. If you are new to PanPastel Colors, or are interested in discovering new ways to use the medium, this is a great way to learn many of the techniques that are possible.