Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Serious beginner)

by John Elliot

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Designed for the serious beginner, this volume offers step-by-step advice on painting in oil pastels. Lessons progress simply from easy subjects and techniques to the more difficult and complex. First, artists learn how to use oil pastels to create traditional paintings in still landscape and portraiture. Then the author explores 12 specific experimental techniques, including impasto, washes and monoprint; stencil and screen techniques; and methods for combining pastel with soft pastel and mixed media.
  • ISBN10 0823033112
  • ISBN13 9780823033119
  • Publish Date 1 October 2002
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 2 February 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications
  • Imprint Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Language English