[PDF] Pastels For Beginners eBook

Author : Rebecca de Mendonça
Publisher : SearchPress+ORM
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1781268347

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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 : Tim Fisher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1782215506

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Learn to paint with oil pastels in this accessible book for the absolute beginner. Learn to paint with oil pastels in this straightforward guide to this relatively unexplored medium. Tim Fisher demonstrates how to use the oil pastels on their own, or in conjunction with acrylic inks and paints and watercolours, on a variety of surfaces to create beautiful paintings that will maintain their vibrancy for years to come. This Beginner's Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels features six full step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects from animal portraits to boats, harbours and reflections, and introduces the reader to mark-making with oil pastels and using solvents for a textured finish. The book also explains how to preserve, keep and frame your oil pastel works safely.

Author : John Elliot
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823033119

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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.

Author : Sherry Stone Clifton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0470606886

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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!

Author : Paul Pigram
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1633224287

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Beginning Pastel guides beginning artists through an exploration of pastel techniques and step-by-step projects for acomprehensive and approachable overview of the vibrant pastel medium. Pastels are a unique tool, and Beginning Pastel is the perfect introductory resource for artists just getting started in this colorful medium. Before jumping into the step-by-step projects, this book covers choosing the right paper, pastels, and colors, to basic techniques like blending, gradating, and masking. Each stroke and technique is clearly explained and beautifully illustrated. After learning the key concepts, you’ll promptly put them into practice through simple step-by-step exercises. With pastel often considered an advanced medium, Beginning Pastel makes the tricky task of drawing in pastel accessible and achievable for any artist. The Portfolio series covers essential art techniques, core concepts, and media with an approach and format that’s perfect for aspiring, beginning, and intermediate artists. Also available from the series: Beginning Acrylic, Beginning Drawing, Beginning Watercolor, Beginning Colored Pencil, Beginning Color Mixing, Expressive Painting, Beginning Color Mixing, Beginning Pen & Ink, and Beginning Composition.

Author : Larry Blovits
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823039074

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Basic lessons in becoming a good painter in pastels.

Author : Claire Brown
Publisher : Chartwell
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0785820841

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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.

Author : Francisco Asensio Cerver
Publisher : Konemann
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780841601710

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Whether your preferred medium is canvas or paper, wood or stone, this series of books for beginners demonstrates drawing, painting and design techniques for a variety of surfaces, materials and spaces. The titles in this practical series are suited to help readers become familiar with the most essential techniques of drawing, painting and design.

Author : Alain Picard
Publisher : Walter Foster
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 1600584314

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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.

Author : Margaret Evans
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Pastel drawing
ISBN : 9781844488612

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