Art Instruction Book - DRAWING - Start to Paint with Pastels by Jenny Keal
The techniques you need to create beautiful paintings.
Focusing on soft (chalk) pastels, this clear, simple-to-understand book encourages you to explore the materials and methods needed to get started with pastels. Jenny begins by introducing you to a variety of techniques, and looks at sketchbooks and photographs as a way of gathering source material.
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The new edition of Jenny Keal's popular book Painting with Pastels is an inspiring and creative introduction to painting in this medium.
There are then five stunning step-by-step projects for the reader to choose from, covering a range of subjects from flowers to landscapes and coastal scenes, and designed to build on the basic skills covered in the earlier sections of the book.
Here you will learn about creating atmosphere, colour, tone, composition and perspective, and before you realise it you will have all the skills you need to create your own beautiful pastel paintings.
- Table of Contents
- Introduction6
- Materials8
- studio set-up14
- Colour theory16
- Techniques18
- Gathering subjects 26
- Composition30
- composing for flowers32
- Recession34
- step-by-step demonstrations 36
- Barns and
- Mountains38
- Simplification
- Coastal scene48
- Creating atmosphere
- Harbour Scene60
- Colour and tone
- Iris72
- Composition for flower painting
- Farm in a Landscape84
- Aerial perspective
- Index96
Edition: BC Paperback
Publication: 08 October 2018
Size: 216x292 mm
Illustrations: 250
Pages: 112