Pastel Artist's Bible An Essential Reference for the Practicing Artist

Name: Pastel Artist's Bible An Essential Reference for the Practicing Artist
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ISBN: 9780785820840

ISBN-10: 0785820841

ISBN-13: 9780785820840

Edition: N/A

Authors: Claire Brown

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Discover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide. More than 100 visual sequences reveal key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: Book Sales, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2009
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction


Materials


Types of pastel


Looking after your pastels


Paper textures


Paper colors


Other equipment


Color


Color principles


Basic palette


Color mixes


Using greens


Using browns and grays


Mixing skin tones


Using skin tones


Basic Techniques


Working practice


Side strokes


Linear strokes


Tutorial: Using basic strokes


Gestural drawing


Blending


Surface mixing


Broken color


Hatching and crosshatching


Feathering


Scumbling


Coloring the ground


Texturing the ground


Preparatory drawings


Building up


Tutorial: Building a painting


Highlights and shadows


Tutorial: Color accents


Erasing


Fixing


Further Techniques


Masking


Wet brushing


Impasto


Sgraffito


Underpainting


Charcoal and pastel


Colored pencil and pastel


Watercolor and pastel


Gouache and pastel


Acrylic paint and pastel


Oil paint and pastel


Resist techniques


Subjects


Landscape


Composing a landcape


Light and landscape


Atmostphere and landscape


Tutorial: Atmospheric landscape


Skies


Water


Trees


Flowers and foliage


Urban Subjects


Buildings


Depicting details


Urban settings


Tutorial: Urban landscape


Still Life


Found groups


Fruit


Tutorial: Painting fruit


Flowers


Floral still-life groups


People


Portraits


Tutorial: Painting a portrait


Figures in action


Figures in context


Tutorial: Painting figures in a setting


Figure groups


Animals


Animal studies


Tutorial: Animals in action


Index


Credits