Collins Learn to Paint
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John Blockley demonstrates all the basic techniques of painting in the colourful modern media of pastels. He shows how to make marks with pastels, which papers to use and how to work from pencil sketches. There are many interesting step-by-step demonstration paintings on a variety of subjects including flowers, still life, interiors and landscapes.
In this book the author, President of the Pastel Society, portrays the excitement of working with pastels to create vibrant and colourful images of flowers. The book discusses the range of pastels available and the basic techniques of pastel painting. It then takes the reader through some simple flower studies and on to more complex paintings, several of them as step-by-step demonstrations.