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The Pastel Artist's BibleMarilyn ScottDiscover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide to one of the most versatile and forgiving mediums. More than 100 visual sequences reveal key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering. This work includes advice on composing your painting, using colour, adding highlights and shadows, and creating textured effects. Step-by-step demonstrations show how to approach a range of subjects, from landscapes and flowers to portraits and still life.
MATERIALS
Types of pastel, looking after your pastels, paper textures, paper colours, other equipment.
COLOUR
Colour principles, basic palette, colour mixes, using greens, using browns and greys, mixing skin tones, using skin tones.
BASIC TECHNIQUES
Working practice, side strokes, linear strokes, tutorial: using basic strokes, gestural drawing, blending, surface mixing, broken colour, hatching and crosshatching, feathering, scumbling, colouring the ground, texturing the ground, preparatory drawings, building up, tutorial: building a painting, highlights and shadows, tutorial: colour accents, erasing, fixing.
FURTHER TECHNIQUES
Masking, wet brushing, impasto, sgraffito, underpainting, charcoal and pastel, coloured pencil and pastel, watercolour and pastel, gouache and pastel, acrylic paint and pastel, oil paint and pastel, resist techniques.
SUBJECTS
- LANDSCAPE
Composing a landscape, light and landscape, atomosphere 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. |  |
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