Search Press Pastel Painting Step-by-Step

J’ai aimé les démonstrations, les explications et la présentation.

O livro é simplesmente maravilhoso! A impressão gráfica é de excelente qualidade.

I am glad I bought this book. The tutorial images provide direction for working step by step through adding areas of color and then refining those areas in subsequent steps. It doesn't matter if the the subject is one you're interested in painting because it gets the pastels into your hands and lets you explore laying down the color. It will tell you what processes you do like like, or those you don't. It illustrates how the colors work together and what kind of marks to make to create the image. It's likely your finished painting won't be as pretty, but you'll learn about pastels and that's the whole point. Nice sized examples of paintings of similar subject matter provide an opportunity to see them from a more knowledgeable base - letting you notice technique and approaches that you might have missed before. Basic information on materials starts the book off. There's a bit on mark making and blending, and some basic drawing pointers - viewpoints and perspective, values and light sources, The tutorials make up much of the book and each one covers either a type of landscape (seaside, autumn, hills, townscape, nighttime,) or subject such as trees and flowers. The human figure, or faces, have not been addressed in the book, but there a lot of good techniques that could be put to could use by an artist wanting to place figures into an environment.I hope this helps...

When I ordered this publication, I believed I was ordering a tutorial by Margaret Evans. What I discovered was a publication featuring chapters written by other artists. Even tho those artists are very accomplished, I was disappointed, since I had hoped to find information from Margaret Evans. If I had wanted articles written by other artists I would have ordered books written by those artists. ( I actually had ordered a book by Richard McKinly, and found the same information in the Evans book). Margaret Evans did have one chapter devoted to her work, but it was on painting flowers. Again, if I had wanted a book on painting flowers I would have ordered such a publication. Very disappointed but in future will check very closely the contents of the publications I order to ensure the author is the person proclaimed to be that author.

It was a gift