Pastels

Angela Gair
Pastels
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Pastels
ISBN: 9781853686047
Publication Date: 1 January 2011

Designed to help the beginner start painting immediately without overwhelming them with theory, the books in this series contain a mixture of projects and inspirational 'gallery' examples, encouraging readers to move on to build up a range of skills and techniques.

This title covers pastels. Topics include:

  • storing pastels
  • toning papers and boards
  • fixing and squaring up and
  • the best pastels, paper and equipment to use.

Projects are designed to develop expressive strokes, blending, layering, broken colour, scumbling, feathering, hatching and mixing pastels with other media.