Pastels for the Absolute Beginner

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Take your first steps with pastels and learn how to produce modern, lively and colourful artwork with 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 essential skills and allow you to produce a range of pictures, including landscapes, still life, portraits and animals. Vital drawing skills are explained and demonstrated, along with an easy-to-follow guide to colour theory. A huge wealth of finished paintings provide ideas and inspiration for your own future pastel work. Table of Contents Introduction 6 Materials 8 Setting up your workspace 12 Starting to draw 16 Pastel techniques 28 Bauble step by step 36 Teasel step by step 46 Colour 56 Rolling Fields step by step 62 Landscapes 70 Rocky Tor step by step 74 Billowing Clouds step by step 92 The Birches step by step 104 Life in your paintings 110 Child with Fishing Net step by step 120 Toby step by step 130 Composition 140 Index 144

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