Materials -- Setting up your workspace -- Starting to draw -- Pastel techniques -- Bauble : step by step -- Teasel : step by step -- Colour -- Rolling fields : step by step -- Landscapes -- Rocky tor : step by step -- Billowing clouds : step by step -- The birches : step by step -- Life in your paintings -- Gone fishing : step by step -- Toby : step by step -- Composition.
Summary
Take your first steps with pastels and learn how to produce modern, lively and colourful artwork with this exciting art medium. This book is a complete course in using pastels. Step-by-step exercises and longer projects help you to build essential skills and allow you to produce a range of subjects, including landscapes, still life and animals. Vital drawing skills are explained and demonstrated, along with a section on colour theory and a huge wealth of finished artwork to give you ideas and inspiration for your own future pastel work.
