The Pastel Artist S Bible

A comprehensive guide to one of the most popular painting media—including materials, color, techniques, and subjects from still lifes to animals. Discover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide to one of the most versatile and forgiving mediums. More than one hundred visual sequences reveal key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching and feathering. Includes tips on composing your painting, using color, 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. Over 65,000 copies sold worldwide.

The Artist's Bible is a wonderful reference for any experienced or novice artist. Whatever medium you preferâ?¬â? pastel, watercolor, oil, acrylic, multimediaâ?¬â? this book, with its themed sections, provides tips, trade secrets and time and money savings advice that you can't afford to be without. Crammed with over 400 ingenious solutions to every conceivable painting problem, our team of experienced professional artists, all with many years of painting behind them, share their invaluable advice on subjects as diverse as speeding up slow drying washes, making tricky paint behave itself, creating convincing skin tones and capturing the delicacy of flower structures. Each tip is fully illustrated with both step-by-step sequences and exemplary finished works, making this book a resource that will have a place on your shelf for many years to come.

"Learn to use and enjoy this wonderful but underrated painting medium."--Back cover.

One of the most classical of all painting mediums, this all-in-one guide will help you in selecting materials, equipment, and techniques.

This guide to painting techniques and subjects includes photos, diagrams and illustrations, providing instruction for both beginner and advanced artists. With its great flexibility, acrylic paint can mimic the appearance of oils, tempera, and watercolors in unique ways, each method pictured in a separate step-by-step demonstration. The author also examines the use of acrylics with airbrush, sculptural, and printing techniques—even three-dimensional relief painting and collagraph printing methods are included—and how several of these different creative processes can be integrated successfully in one composition with ink, pencil, charcoal, and pastel. Inspiring examples of representational and abstract subjects are depicted throughout, and a complete survey of all the latest acrylic materials covers the best paint brands, painting mediums, supports, varnishes, brushes, knives, and palettes. This book contains instructions on painting many different subjects, like landscapes, trees, mountains, buildings, still lifes, and portraits. It makes an ideal gift for someone practiced in the arts of acrylic painting, and newcomers to the art form.

An essential and extensively illustrated reference for the practical artist, covering materials, techniques, and subjects. This complete guide to drawing media, from pencils and charcoal to pastels and colored inks, also features: Information on how to achieve exciting and unusual effects by combining two or more drawing media Over 100 step-by-step demonstrations showing ways of tackling tricky subjects Sections covering figure, landscape, nature, urban, and still life drawing Tips on how to professionally present your work and get it into the marketplace

Learn how to analyze the structure of flowers and break them down into simple shapes; create delightful compositions; mix beautiful flower colors, from delicate pastels to rich and vibrant hues. Over 60,000 copies sold worldwide.

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