Pastel Painting Step-by-Step

by Margaret Evans, Paul Hardy, Peter Coombs

Overview

3 professional artists show you how to create beautiful pastel paintings in this guide for soft pastel painting enthusiasts of all skill levels!

Features 13 easy-to-follow projects and step-by-step guidance on need-to-know pastel painting techniques.
 
Your course in pastel painting starts now! This practical and comprehensive guide teaches you everything you need to know about creating stunning artwork with soft pastels. Inside you’ll find information on:
 
• Pastel painting basics such as blending, adding tone, and more
• Landscape painting and composition, including trees, water, and more
• Capturing light with pastels, with tips on color mixing
• Flower painting and composition, with tips on adding water to pastels
 
Then, put your skills to the test in 13 easy-to-follow, step-by-step pastel painting projects—and draw inspiration from paintings by 3 professional artists! Pastel painting is easier than ever with this classic guide for beginner and experienced artists.

This book collects material from the following titles in the Step-by-Step Leisure Arts series: Painting with Pastels by Peter Coombs; Landscapes in Pastel by Paul Hardy; Flowers in Pastel by Margaret Evans; Light in Pastel by Paul Hardy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782217831
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	02/18/2020
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	624,249
Product dimensions:	8.09(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Margaret Evans is a well-known artist and practical art teacher who specialises in figure work and portraiture, as well as pastel painting. She has exhibited her work with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Pastel Society and the United Society of Artists and now runs extremely successful painting courses from her studio in Scotland, as well as working on commissions in all media. Margaret is an established contributor to the leisure painting press and has made a number of practical art videos.

Table of Contents

13 demonstrations
Over 250 step by step photographs
An excellent reference book for beginners and experienced artists

Editorial Reviews

"Sections on using a limited palette, composition, colour mixing and colours for painting flowers, are interspersed with 13 demonstrations accompanied by good, clear step-by-step photographs." —Leisure Painter (January 2013)

From the Publisher

Written by a team of three experienced artists, this thorough guide exposes the reader to a variety of viewpoints, techniques, subjects, and tricks. It covers all the basics of this medium, including materials, color blending, mark making, texture, perspective, and composition. Photographs throughout show the authors' working processes, as well as many completed pieces. Readers can follow along with 13 step-by-step pastel painting projects to create landscapes, seascapes, city scenes, floral still lifes, and more. VERDICT Best for beginning and intermediate artists new to pastels.

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