Pastel School: A Practical Guide to Painting and Drawing with PastelsPastel 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. |
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Pastel School: A Practical Guide to Painting and Drawing with Pastels Hazel Harrison No preview available - 1996 |
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Alan Oliver applied arrangement artist artist exploited background BASICS OF PICTURE begin blending blue-gray bowl brown brush build Burnt sienna Burnt umber Cadmium red Cadmium yellow Casole d'Elsa Cerulean blue charcoal choose clouds complementary color composition create curving dark darker detail diagonal edge effect figure foliage foreground fruit give gray hard pastels Hooker's green horizon kneaded eraser landscape layers light lightly lines look mauve medium mixing neutral objects orange overlaying pale pastel board pastel color pastel marks pastel pencils pastel stick pattern perspective petals photograph pigment pink portrait provides Prussian blue purple Rosalie Nadeau Rose madder scene scribbled shadows shapes side strokes sketch soft effects soft pastels space starter palette suggest surface tablecloth technique texture TINT tonal contrast tones and colors tortillon touch trees ultramarine blue underdrawing underpainting vase vertical viewfinder viewpoint violet vivid warm Yellow ochre