Art Instruction Book - DRAWING - Beginners Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels by Tim Fisher
Projects, techniques and inspiration to get you started.
Learn to paint with oil pastels in this colourful, accessible book for newcomers to the medium.
Features six full step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects including animal portraits, street scenes, boats and harbours, buildings and glorious landscapes.
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Tim Fisher demonstrates how to use the oil pastels on their own, or in conjunction with acrylic inks and paints, and watercolours, on a variety of surfaces, to create beautiful paintings that will maintain their vibrancy for years to come.
Introduces the reader to mark-making with oil pastels, explains the history of the medium, and how to protect and keep an oil pastel painting once it is complete.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The history of oil pastels
- Materials and tools
- oil pastels
- Additional materials and tools
- Surfaces
- Surface preparation
- Getting started
- Painting a red pepper
- Techniques
- Mark-making
- Special effects
- Using solvents
- Using oil pastels with other media
- Projects
- Flowers: Poppy Field
- Trees and foliage: Norfolk Lane
- Street scenes: Venice
- Buildings: Staithes Cottages
- harbour scene: ‘Le Fantasque’
- Animal portraits: Freyja
- Care and framing of your artwork
- Index
Edition: BC Paperback
Publication: 08 October 2018
Size: 216x280 mm
Illustrations: 500
Pages: 96