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Designed for the serious beginner, this volume offers step-by-step advice on painting in oil pastels. Lessons progress simply from easy subjects and techniques to the more difficult and complex. First, artists learn how to use oil pastels to create traditional paintings in still landscape and portraiture. Then the author explores 12 specific experimental techniques, including impasto, washes and monoprint; stencil and screen techniques; and methods for combining pastel with soft pastel and mixed media.
Basic lessons in becoming a good painter in pastels.
Discover the limitless possibilities of pastels with this beginner’s guide to creating modern, lively, and colorful pastel artwork. Artist and teacher Rebecca de Mendoça offers beginners a complete course in using pastels. Step-by-step exercises and longer projects help you to build the essential skills you need to paint a range of subjects, including landscapes, still life, portraits, and animals. Vital drawing techniques are explained and demonstrated, along with easy-to-follow explanations of color theory, composition, and the pastels themselves. This volume includes techniques for using both hard and soft pastels, eight skill-building projects, and a wealth of finished artwork to provide ideas and inspiration.
Finally back in print for a new generation of artists, Ken Leslie's Oil Pastel is the definitive instructional resource on this wonderfully rich and versatile medium. Vibrant and portable, oil pastels are ideal for making quick sketches, producing stunning finished works, and make a great auxiliary tool for artists working primarily in other media. Boasting an astonishing array of color, value, and texture, oil pastels can be layered, scraped, washed, blended, and scumbled to achieve a seemingly endless variety of effects ranging from delicate lines to gooey, impasto crusts. Easily the most comprehensive oil pastel technique book available, Ken Leslie's Oil Pastel: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist will teach you everything you need to know to create striking work that is authentically yours. Skipping over the flashy tricks and gimmicks that palely imitate true artistic skill, Ken dives headlong into a lively and engaging discussion of every aspect of the medium. With over 40 years' experience as a beloved teacher and collaborator, it's no wonder that every page of this book is jam-packed with substance and detail! Meticulous step-by-step demonstrations that accompany the sections on technique will show you how to use your pastels to achieve nearly any effect you desire. Ken can even teach you how to get a bright yellow to cover black! You will also have the chance to explore experimental approaches to oil pastel painting including, mixed media, 3-D constructions, unusual paper shapes, working with molten pastels, and much more. Perfect for all skill levels, Oil Pastel's thorough overview of color theory and basic painting techniques will help beginners get off to a strong start while advanced readers will surely delight in learning to make custom homemade pastels and new handling techniques. Ken Leslie's exciting and supportive writing style will have you paging through this book time and time again for tips, reminders, and lessons you missed the first time around! With color images of technical demonstrations, comparisons, the author's work, as well as the work of over 40 other artists, Oil Pastel: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist truly has something for everyone.
Learn to paint with oil pastels in this accessible book for the absolute beginner. Learn to paint with oil pastels in this straightforward guide to this relatively unexplored medium. 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. This Beginner's Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels features six full step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects from animal portraits to boats, harbours and reflections, and introduces the reader to mark-making with oil pastels and using solvents for a textured finish. The book also explains how to preserve, keep and frame your oil pastel works safely.
Learn How to Paint Landscapes Using Pastels For the Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Materials Shaving your Pastels Various ways to blend using Pastels Additional Techniques: Color Wheel Tips to Remember How to render using Pastels with brush Exercises: Tropical Beach Scene The Canadian Rockies Autumn Leaves Cabin Delicate Arch in Arches National Park Waterfall at Yellowstone National Park Author Bio Introduction: Learning to paint Landscape using Pastel is easy, if only you know how to use the right materials and also with proper skills, these are the things you will learn from this eBook. So let me congratulate you for picking up this eBook, for your guide in Pastels, later on as you are working with the exercises you will notice that the techniques used are different from other artists, as it is not just rubbing the pastel in the paper and staining your delicate hands is enough, but we will be using brushes when applying Pastels and materials for blending which you can easily find in your home. You will be using Shaved Pastel colors, which I will be teaching you to make and use it for our work, also various techniques of how to blend the Pastel using single or combination of colors, including discussion of color wheel which is very essential for every artist, and much more for you. You have to read the book step-by-step, I mean that you can’t go to the exercises without learning the basics and fundamental first, so you have to read the first page till the end page, for you to understand it fully. Give your dedication or set time to read the book and work with the exercises, as you are working with your rendering skills, it will become evident that you are getting better as you continue working and gaining experience with it, and who knows where it will take you in the future, it will be very bright for sure, so have fun with your Pastels- future artist. So be ready with your materials and follow the step-by-step procedures thoroughly in the exercises. And after that I’m sure at the end you will have Pastel Rendering skills and you will be rewarded for that, but first “have fun doing the exercises” and be sure to check our Pastel eBook series and other eBooks.
Learn How to Paint Portraits of People Using Pastels For the Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Materials: Shaving your Pastels Pastel Storage Various ways to blend using Pastels Additional Techniques: Tips to prevent two colors from Mixing each other Color Wheel Primary Colors Secondary Colors Tertiary Colors Tips to Remember How to render using Pastels with brush Exercises: Pastel Portrait of David’s Head Eyes Nose Mouth Ears Hair Face and Neck Background Baby Girl in Pastel Portrait of a Young Lady looking out the Window The Couple Portrait Author Bio Introduction: Welcome to the world of Pastels, first of all thank you for picking up this eBook, as it shows your genuine interest in this subject. Why Pastel? Well pastel is easy to learn with proper training which you will be learning from this eBook, it already earned its popularity during Renaissance time, also what’s good with pastel is it comes with a wide variety of colors to choose from, Famous Artists who uses this media are Leonardo Da Vinci, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Vincent Van Gogh. If you may ask, how do I learn this art, it started when I was learning to render Charcoal, as Charcoal was for gray tone values, I asked myself one day, if you know how to use Charcoal, why not learn Pastels? So I decided to add color to my artworks, by learning to use Pastels for my colored artworks, as what I had seen (and also adapt some of their style) in some artist who uses it and earn their living by accepting commissioned works from their clients (it’s not a bad idea if after all if that’s what you are thinking or planning in your life- So my advice to you- “be skillful and confident by learning and practice all the exercises from this eBook”). And by the way if you want to learn how to render using Charcoal after you learned everything from this eBook, check our other Charcoal Titles- Learn How to Draw Portraits of People in Charcoal for the Beginner (Learn to Draw), Learn How to Draw Landscapes In Pencil and Charcoal For The Absolute Beginner (Learn to Draw), Learn How to Draw Portraits of African Animals in Charcoal For the Beginner (Learn to Draw). So be ready with your materials and follow the step-by-step procedures in the exercises. And after that I’m sure at the end you will have Pastel Rendering skills and you will be rewarded for that, but first “have fun doing the exercises”.
Learn How to Paint Animal Portraits Using Pastels For the Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Materials Shaving your Pastels Pastel Storage Various ways to blend using Pastels Additional Techniques: Color Wheel Tips to Remember How to render using Pastels with brush Exercises: The Wolf The Capuchin Monkey The Sugar Glider The Panda Author Bio Introduction: First of all thank you for choosing this eBook as your guide in Pastel Art, This is the Second eBook for the Pastel Art Series The first one is – “Learn How to Paint Portraits of People Using Pastels For the Beginner”, for this Second series we will be drawing and rendering animal fur and it’s specific texture using Pastel. I remember as a kid I admired people who could draw and render animals, with just a pencil strokes, but as years goes by, my love and curiosity for art alone are not enough, so I seek for more ways to inspire me and appreciate art by immersing myself to some other medium, and I found out that pastel can really add something to my animals artwork as it has colors which can give life to your drawing aside from contenting myself from pencil alone. I can assure you that if you try this, you will be amazed with it. So read it from start to finish, the first part is about what to expect in Pastel art, styles and techniques, and a discussion of colors, tips to remember, and how to render Pastel using Brushes, which is the key for rendering and blending Pastels. And by the way if you want to learn how to render using Charcoal after you learned everything from this eBook, check our other Charcoal Titles- Learn How to Draw Portraits of People in Charcoal for the Beginner (Learn to Draw), Learn How to Draw Landscapes In Pencil and Charcoal For The Absolute Beginner (Learn to Draw), Learn How to Draw Portraits of African Animals in Charcoal For the Beginner (Learn to Draw). So be ready with your materials and follow the step-by-step procedures thoroughly in the exercises. And after that I’m sure at the end you will have Pastel Rendering skills and you will be rewarded for that, but first “have fun doing the exercises”.