Beginner's Guide: Pastels
Will be published approx. on 15. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-85368-604-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
IMM Lifestyle Books
Illustrations
Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 265 mm
Width: 195 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85368-604-7 (9781853686047)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
09/1997
New Holland Publishers Ltd
€34.84
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Person
Angela Gair is an established painter, writer and editor. She studied fine art and then spent several years painting and teaching in Italy, Spain and France. She is author of Watercolour, Drawing, Acrylics, Pastels and Oil Painting in New Holland's Beginner's Guide series.