pastel drawing

"Step-by-step guides show how to create a variety of projects using acrylics, oils, watercolors, and pastels"--Provided by publisher.

A comprehensive guide to painting with pastels including easy instructions on how to master tone, colour blending, composition, perspective, and more.

Describes numerous brands of soft and oil pastels, oil sticks, papers and supports, mediums and fixatives, and tools; discusses color, textures, and mixed media; and provides demonstrations for several techniques.

An introduction to pastels for absolute beginners, discussing materials and color mixing, examining the basic techniques of drawing with pastels, and featuring step-by-step demonstrations and exercises.

"Step-by-step guides show how to create a variety of projects using acrylics, oils, watercolors, and pastels"--Provided by publisher.

Step-by-step instructions and photographs give an introduction to using pastels.

Presents full-color illustrated instructions to painting landscapes depicting the four seasons.

Presents general lessons on techniques, preparing paper or board, and color leading into eight projects with easy to follow instructions.

Different types of pastels including hard, soft, oil, iridescent, and pencil are shown and their properties explained. Demonstration drawings of a variety of subjects show how the pastels are used and include still lifes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, a landscape, a fashion drawing, a dog, and tropical fish. The artist also demonstrates how to combine oil pastels with turpentine for opaque drawings and how soft pastels can be used on velour to create effective textural drawings.