Pastel Painting Step-by-Step

by Margaret Evans, Paul Hardy, Peter Coombs

Overview

This is a practical and comprehensive guide for all soft pastel painting enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced artist. Starting with advice on materials, it moves on to pastel basics such as blending, adding tone and using a limited palette, then there is a section on landscape painting featuring advice on composition and painting trees and water, then capturing light in pastels, with tips on colour mixing, and finally there is a section of flower painting, with additional information on adding water to pastels. Throughout, the art of painting in pastels is taught through beautiful, easy to follow step by step projects, with a total of 13 included, and each section is accompanied by a selection of inspirational paintings by the three featured artists, in a rich variety of styles.
Uses 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:	516,253
Product dimensions:	8.06(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.43(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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