Art Instruction Book - DRAWING - The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques by Judy Martin

A unique visual directory of pastel painting techniques, with guidance on how to use them.

A new, up-to-date edition of the popular and comprehensive encyclopedia by professional artist Judy Martin.

In this exhaustive A-Z reference for artists of all skills, a variety of different pastel types are detailed, from oil through to water-soluble pastels, amongst the multitude of techniques broken down and easily explained.

The book is divided into two sections: the first provides step-by-step demonstrations that guide artists through a variety of techniques, from basic colour mixing through to creating special effects such as sgraffito and sfumato.

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The second part focuses on themes, illustrating how individual artists tackle a number of subjects, including natural landscapes, urban scenes, figures, animals and still life.

This resource provides a wealth of stimulating ideas to help artists both amateurs and veterans develop their own pastel style.

Table of Contents

• Introducing acrylics
• Techniques
• Accenting
• Acrylic and Pastel
• Blending
• Blocking In
• Broken Colour
• Building Up
• Charcoal and Pastel
• Coloured Grounds
• Dry Wash
• Edge Qualities
• Erasures
• Freathering
• Fixing
• Frottage
• Gestural Drawing
• Gouache and Pastel Gradations
• Hatching and Crosshatching
• Highlighting
• Impasto
• Linear Marks
• Masking
• Oil Painting and Pastel
• Overlaying Colours
• Pencil and Pastel
• Pouncing
• Projecting and Image
• Resist Techniques
• Scraping Out
• Scratchboard with Oil Pastel
• Scumbling
• Sfumato
• Sgraffito
• Shading
• Side Strokes
• Sketching
• Stippling
• Textured Grounds
• Tinting
• Washes
• Watercolour and Pastel
• Wet Brushing
• Themes
• Landscape
• The environment
• The figure
• Portraits
• Still life
• Index and credits