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Margaret Evans, Paul Hardy
and Peter Coombs
Search Press
14 November 2012/ ISBN 9781844488612
How-To Books/Art
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
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Based
on four earlier books on the subject by the above authors, this
is a comprehensive guide to the art of using pastels. I like
the way that what you need to buy and the differences between
pastels is dealt with once only at the beginning, leaving out
this part from the other three sections. You don’t need
as much to take up this aspect of art as most others and there
is even a helpful section on working with a limited palette,
as well as another on what colors to buy for flower paintings.
This is, like most Search Press books, a very hands-on approach
with a minimum of theory for its own sake and a maximum of learning
through actual painting. The book contains thirteen different
projects to work through as well as many other things to try
out, enabling even a beginner to get some professional-looking
results. Each project tells you what you need and has a good
number of stages, each with a short caption telling you what
to do next and a photograph showing the picture with the next
steps added. It is a great way to learn, and I particularly
liked having three different approaches to play with and three
different artists to learn from. This way there is less of a
chance of slavish copying, and a good look at more than one
style in pastel painting. Sometimes I think that compendiums
take away too much from the individual books but this is an
effective one for the above reasons. An excellent tool for those
who want to learn pastel painting, or improve their technique. |
UK Reviewer: Rachel Hyde's
work can be found in Sewing World, Sew Hip, Popular Crafts
and other magazines. Her craft blog is Green
Thoughts |
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