Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner

ISBN: 9780823033119

出版社: St Martins Pr

出版年: 2002

页数: 144

定价: $19.95

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner Unlike soft pastel, oil pasel is a clean, dust-free medium capable of producing rich and varied painting effects. Even if you've never tried oil pastel before, this book will empower you to work easily and successfully with the medium, thanks to careful instruction provided by John Elliot, a leading master of oil pastel art. You will learn how to: Select a fine range of oil pastels and many different painting surfaces Practice varied pastel marks, such as crosshatching, scumbling, and other basic techniques Create fresh still lifes, light-filled landscapes and waterscapes, evocative figure studies and portraits, as shown in step-by-step demonstrations Use oil pastel with a solvent to get transparent wash effects and monoprints Combine oil pastel with watercolor, acrylic, gouache, collage, and other mixed media forms. by John Elliott 144 pages, 7x10 inches, soft cover. 178 full color illustrations.