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Paul Hardy illustrates the versatility of pastels and shows how to create an exciting range of effects - from the soft, subtle tones of an early morning to the strong, dynamic impression of a stormy landscape. Paul Hardy shares the delights and beauty of working with a medium that is amazingly versatile, exciting and inspiring. This colourful, practical guide illustrates the techniques of applying pastel to a variety of paper surfaces, from field sketching and composing a painting to painting skies, trees, water and reflections. Step-by-step demonstrations show the reader how to paint a series of landscapes - from a moody moorland pastoral scene to a gently flowing river, aglow with the warm colours of autumnal trees. The artist is rewarded as fields, trees and flowers spring to life when pastel is applied to paper.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains some wonderful pastel paintings by an obviously talented artist.
The problem is that only a small fraction of the paintings are shown as "how-to" projects. Many of the others are shown with captions like "Waterfalls offer the chance to show moving and still water in the same scene". Does the author then carry on to show the student how to create a waterfall, with a discussion of the techniques required to achieve the correct textures etc.? Sadly, no.
Unfortunately there are many examples of this kind of thing in the book. The author seems to assume that because HE finds certain things easy, then they require little or no explanation. As a teacher myself (I teach the guitar) I understand that things which are second nature to me can completely bamboozle the inexperienced student if not explained in microscopic detail. It's a shame that Mr. Hardy doesn't realise this as his book would have been immeasurably better as a result.
Buy this book if you have some experience of using pastels and want to pick up some tips, but a beginner (who this book is supposedly aimed at) will struggle to make much headway. Paul Hardy could probably write a very good beginners book on pastel painting, the problem is that as yet, he hasn't.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Delighted with this product. Explicit, and helpful in improving my techniques using pastels. Would recommend.
Format:Paperback
I was surprised to see this rated not for beginners, I found it very helpful and learned a lot from it and I was only a new starter to pastels,really good value for money
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