books about: pastels     books:       Painting with Pastels: Easy Techniques to Master the Medium4 reviews Maggie Price North Light Books, 2007 Impressive book! I'm just getting started with pastels and fell in love with this medium. Prior to this I have done oils for years, and teach in other mediums as well. I buy reference books all the time in the areas that interest me. PAINTING WITH PASTELS by Maggie Price is the best of those I have purchased. It seemed to be written just for me! It is VERY informative; the examples are marvelous! Landscapes are ...             Color Mixing Bible: All You'll Ever Need to Know about Mixing Pigments in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, ...9 reviews Ian Sidaway Watson-Guptill, 2002 Super Guide for Colors This book will makes your life easier by guiding you in choosing the right ccolor combinations to reach the desired hue. It is simple to use and accurate; don't waste your art supplies by mixing the wrong colors. Great for people like me, afraid of color.             Pastel School (Learn as You Go)8 reviews Hazel Harrison Readers Digest, 2006 Beginners start with this! This book is incredibly helpful with demonstrations, suggestions for colors, layering options, and beautiful illustrations with various styles shown. The only thing that would have been even more helpful to this book was a little more information about paper and pastel suppliers and the difference in quality between them. I'm still giving it 5 stars though!             Capturing Radiant Light & Color in Oils and Pastels5 reviews Susan Sarbach North Light Books, 2007 A Must Have Detailed teachings from a master painter -- can it get better? This is the absolutely best how-to book on painting in the Hensche/Hawthorne tradition that is out there right now. It is a bit surprising that it is called a revised edition, as, IMHO, it is a new and even better book. The method is explained clearly and logically, easy to follow. Many step-by-step demonstrations with clear ...             Painting the Landscape in Pastel13 reviews Albert Handell, Anita West Watson-Guptill, 2000 New to Pastel and in awe! Though I paint in other mediums, I am new to pastels. This book is the only one I will ever need. The pictures are beautiful and lush. The instructions and explanations are simple to understand. Would heartily recommend this book to new or experienced artists.             The Pastel Artist's Bible: An essential reference for the practicing artist (Quarto Book)3 reviews Chartwell Books, 2006 Croghan from London Ohio I have worked in pastels on and off for over 50 years and I was looking for a book to help me catch up on the latest techniques and what materials were available. I found this book to be very concise and helpful it is well laid out and the information in it is very credible the illustrations are both colorful and well done and are good examples of what is being expressed in words. I highly ...             Pastel 12 (Pastel) Toshihiko Kobayashi Del Rey, 2008 A SUMMER CONFESSION? It?s summer break, and Mugi and the gang are spending it at the beach. Mugi has made up his mind to finally tell Yuu how he feels about her, but it?s not an easy task. Luckily (or maybe unluckily), Mugi?s best pal, Kazuki, is there for support. Kazuki enters Mugi and Yuu in the Best Couple Contest in hopes of putting them in the mood. But Mugi and Yuu end up with more than they bargained for!             Wolf Kahn Pastels9 reviews Wolf Kahn Harry N. Abrams, 2000 Excellent Book but I'd Recommend Buying it from A Different Vendor The book itself is excellent. Wolf Kahn writes beautifully and I love to hear what he thinks about his art -- this is so helpful to me as an artist struggling with many of the same issues in my own work. However, this is the SECOND book I've purchased from Amazon recently that was clearly USED (pages bent, cover scuffed & torn)when I purchased what was supposed to be a NEW book. This is ...             Pastel Workbook: A Complete Course in 10 Lessons (Workbook)2 reviews Jackie Simmonds David & Charles, 2007 Teaching guide Clear, simple teaching guide for pastel beginners. 10 progressive lessons. Examples range from simple to advanced, to encourage and inspire the reader. I think it needs a bit more information in fixatives and surfaces, which are a large factor in the whole picture-making process. Overall, it's a good book to get started. s_tomsik             Creative Cloth Doll Faces: Using Paints, Pastels, Fibers, Beading, Collage, and Sculpting Techniques22 reviews Patti Medaris Culea Quarry Books, 2004 Fun and easy! That's what this book is good at. Easy to follow directions, great patterns, that can be changed to fit - your doll. But most of all, a easy way to get that face looking, like a face. Not a blob of colors, where the eyes are not in the right place, or are too big on one side, and smaller on the other. This book also has great tips for those who are more experianced. The face intimadates most ...             Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Serious Beginner)8 reviews John Elliot Watson-Guptill, 2002 Oil Pastel a medium worthy of more recognition This book is a dream come true for the lovers of the long under-rated medium of oil pastel. Despite the fact that this worthy artists medium was first commissioned by none less than Pablo Picasso, it has remained at most despised by 'serious' artists, as a tool for students or the kindergarten or regarded as a means for sketching or preliminary working of ideas. John Elliot demonstrates with ...             The Art of Pastel Painting4 reviews Alan Flattmann Pelican Publishing Company, 2007 This Will Be In Every Pastel Artist's Book Case Alan is a master pastel artist and also a master teacher. No fluff here - just page after of page of real tips from a guy who really knows how to communicate at all levels. This book will teach even the pros a few things yet this book is really easy to understand. It will be THE pastel reference for years to come. The color reproductions could have been better on some pages, but it really ...             All About Techniques in Pastel (All About Techniques)7 reviews Parramon's Editorial Team Barron's Educational Series, 1998 all inclusive As far as a pastel technique book goes this one is all inclusive. It has the latest techniques including the mixing of pastel with other elements like water and alcohol and so on. Pastel line, color mixing, blending. The strong point of the book is that it gives an example of how to paint in pastel almost any subject like skies, rooftops, water, water in motion, vegetation, fruit, skin, ...             Pastels in 10 Steps: Learn All the Techniques You Need in Just One Painting (10 Steps) Ian Sidaway Hamlyn, 2008 The newest title in this popular series shows both beginners and intermediate artists the secrets of creating beautiful pastel creations. Artists? commentaries accompany color photographs showing everything from choosing materials and using equipment to building a suitable color, foundation to determining placement for the elements within the artwork. The concepts of tone, color, and texture are all addressed, including how to layer and blend ...             Paint Happy7 reviews Cristina Acosta North Light Books, 2002 book with a difference I just bought this book a week ago and I have already framed two pictures that I have painted with its help. I enjoyed painting them, they were simple and not challenging, just how I like painting. You can use the author's ideas with your own style thrown in. I'm happy that I bought this book.             Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Serious Beginner)10 reviews Larry Blovits Watson-Guptill, 1996 One of the Best Books for Beginners on the Market I have used this book now for 2 years and have found it a great help. My first really wonderful painting I did was from this book. I found this book great because it had beautiful paintings that I would want to copy and for the beginner copying others work is usually where you start. The fundamentals on how to use the pastels for different backgrounds is also very good. I hilly recommend this ...             The Pastelist's Year: Painting the Four Seasons in Pastel5 reviews Elizabeth Mowry Watson-Guptill, 2001 One of the very best !! I have read this book twice and some portions three times. I find Elizabeth Mowry to be very sharing and knowledgeable and willing to show you how she achieves certain passages in her paintings. I had been going through a dry period, and this book opened up new worlds for me. I especially liked that she tells you to make small sketches, color sketches and use photographs. All these things were ...             The Pastel Book23 reviews Bill Creevy Watson-Guptill, 1999 An excellent book for those just beginning in pastel work I found this book to be a terrific reference for any artist beginning to explore pastels. There are lots of charming paintings by the author, and demo photos of how the paintings came into being. There is also a WONDERFUL section on supplies: what and where to get them, how they're priced, and if they're worth it. Yet, I do wish that the author had spent a little more time on showing and ...             Pastel 11 (Pastel)2 reviews Toshihiko Kobayashi Del Rey, 2008 only 3 chapters.. finished reading it in like 2hours.. the 3chapters were really good.. cant wait for the 12th volume.. :)              search for books acrylic, artist, beading, becoming, beginner, capturing, collage, complete, course, creative, essential, gouache, landscape, lessons, painter, painting, pastel, pastelist, pastels, pigments, practicing, quarto, radiant, reference, sculpting, seasons, serious, techniques, watercolor, workbook books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: The Wind And The Wheat leave a comment home  impressum - about us