Art Instruction Book - DRAWING - Painting Skies in Pastel - by Sandra Orme

Creating dramatic clouds and atmospheric skyscapes.

This book is designed teach beginners and beyond the confidence and skills to create convincing, stunning skyscapes.

From rich, glowing sunsets to bright clouds on a fresh, blustery day.

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Practical and inspiring book distils award-winning artist Sandra Orme's insights and experience into a complete course in the fundamentals of working with pastels.

She explores those aspects of colour that are key to painting skies: how to retain vibrancy; how to avoid muddy colours through the use of 'bridging' colours; and how many pastels to use for the best effect.

Each of the stage-by-stage projects focuses upon a particular sky effect, and each main stage is shown both before and after blending for clarity. Her 'Sky clinic', which finishes the book, offers more specialist and technical help on some of the common problems readers might encounter.

Containing the all-important specifics on how to hold the pastel to make various marks, along with close-up pictures showing how the surface should look before you start to blend at each stage, this book assumes no prior knowledge and contains information and insights of value to even the most confident artist.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

• What do you need? 8

• Pastels and colour 26

• Painting skies 34

• Blue sky, white clouds 36

• Cloudburst 48

• Windy Weather 60

• Vivid Sunset 72

• Stormy Sunset 84

• Delicate Sunrise 96

• The pastel sky clinic 108

• Index 128

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: BC Paperback
Publication: 31 August 2023
Size: 216x280 mm
Illustrations: 300
Pages: 128