Pastels for the Absolute Beginner (ABSOLUTE BEGINNER ART)

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Take a crash course in pastel drawing and painting with this beginner-friendly guidebook featuring step-by-step instructions and 8 projects for hard and soft pastels!
Start your journey with pastel painting and drawing, and learn how to produce modern, lively, and colorful artwork with this exciting art medium. In this complete, beginner-friendly course, you’ll find guidance on:
• Choosing and working with different materials
• Setting up your workspace
• Starting to draw—with confidence!
• Pastel techniques (2 step-by-step exercises)
• How to work with color (1 step-by-step exercises)
• Painting landscapes (3 step-by-step exercises)
• Adding life to your paintings (2 step-by-step exercises)
• Mastering composition
The step-by-step exercises and longer projects help you build essential pastel painting and drawing skills, allowing you to produce a range of subjects—from landscapes and animals to still life! Vital drawing skills, color theory, and other useful tips are demonstrated, offering beginner pastel artists a wealth of ideas and inspiration for their future works.

From the Publisher

Take your first steps with pastels and learn how to produce modern, lively and colourful artwork using this exciting medium.

Artist and teacher Rebecca de Mendonça offers the beginner 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 skills are explained and demonstrated, along with easy-to-follow explanations of colour theory, composition and the pastels themselves.
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Easy-to-follow techniques for soft and hard pastels

Using Broad Strokes

Mark Making

Varying the Pressure

Smudging Colours

Includes 8 projects which are broken down into simple steps

Includes a wealth of finished paintings to provide ideas and inspiration.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Search Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2019
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782215638
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782215639
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.56 x 0.4 x 11.06 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Absolute Beginner Art
Best Sellers Rank: #68,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #9 in Pastel Drawing #30 in Landscape & Seascape Art #45 in Landscape Painting
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