All About Techniques in Pastel (All About Techniques)

by Parramon's Editorial Team

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Editorial Reviews

The newest addition to Barron's "All About Techniques" art series explains the fundamentals of art theory, then proceeds to step-by-step instruction on how to create complete, highly finished illustrations with pastels. Techniques of color blending and varying textures that are specific to pastels are shown in detail. Clear, instructive text is supplemented with a wealth of full-color photos that show materials, papers, and how to use them. More color illustrations show pastel compositions in progressive stages of completion.

Customer Reviews

A great reference book of ideas, 2007-09-19
by L. Kuusinen (Minneapolis, MN)

All About Techniques in Pastel (All About Techniques Art Series)
I bought this book to see what can be done with pastels. The tips are great for setting up shop and how-to-do-it. Excellent photos (plural)cover what an artist needs for painting a given subject. It does not deviate from pastels by giving you Drawing 101 basics, other than by examples dealing with each technique. I call it a reference book now.

Pastel for beginners, 2007-07-22
by Alma (West Sayville, NY)

Although I haven't tried to do a pastel painting, this book gives step by step instructions and seems easy to follow.

Neat book, 2003-09-11
by melrose (California, USA)

It had many techniques to get me started on discovering new ones of my own.

Good book for beginner.., 2003-07-13
by Earl Burdick (Pocatello, ID United States)

I am an absolute beginner in pastels and have bought some books which I intend to review. This is a good one with lots of beautiful work and step by steps, The only thing that kept it from 5 stars is it is poorly organized and kind of jumps around.

all inclusive, 2003-02-11
by jason alster (New Britain , CT)

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, portraits, fur, feathers, metal, drapery, and more. You name it. I did not see another book around that has so many different types of examples. I should know because I just published an art book myself --Creative Painting For The Young Artist. So this is a book I will now use in teaching my students.